Category: 66th Fighter Wing, United States Army Air Forces, World War II
Categories: Eighth Air Force, United States Army Air Forces, World War II | United States Army Air Forces Wings, World War II
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| 5th Air Defense Wing 25 March 1943 - 27 March 1943 |
66th Fighter Wing 3 July 1943 - 21 November 1945 |
Illinois Air National Guard 24 May 1946 - 31 October 1950 |
Established in March 1943 at Norfolk Army Airfield Virginia. Supervised training of fighter units for overseas duty. Reorganized and deployed to England, became an intermediate-level command and control organization for VIII Fighter Command with responsibility for fighter-escort groups of Eighth Air Force. Assigned groups provided fighter escort to B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator heavy bomber groups during combat missions over Occupied Europe July 1943-May 1945. Inactivated in England, 21 November 1945.
Subordinate Groups
- 4th Fighter Group: 23 July – 4 November 1945
- 55th Fighter Group: 14 September 1943 – 23 July 1945
- 56th Fighter Group: 15 September – 11 October 1945
- 78th Fighter Group: April 1943 – October 1945
- 339th Fighter Group: 4 April 1944 – October 1945
- 353d Fighter Group: 3 August 1943 – October 1945
- 357th Fighter Group, 31 January 1944 – 8 July 1945
- 358th Fighter Group, 20 October 1943 – 3 July 1944
- 359th Fighter Group: October 1943 – November 1945
- 361st Fighter Group: 30 November 1943 – 1 February 1945; April 1945
- 479th Fighter Group: 15 May 1944 – 21 November 1945
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