331st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
The 331st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, where it was inactivated on 1 March 1967.
| 331st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron | |
|---|---|
331st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Lockheed F-104 Starfighter 56-821 at Webb AFB, Texas February 1964 | |
| Active | 1942–1967 |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Air Force |
| Insignia | |
| Patch with 331st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Emblem (approved 21 September 1964) | |
During World War II the squadron was a Lockheed P-38 Lightning replacement training unit on the west coast of the United States. It performed this mission until it was disbanded in 1944 in a major reorganization of Army Air Forces training and support units.
The squadron was reactivated in 1953 as part of the expansion on air defenses and served in this role from bases in New York until 1958, when it moved to Texas. In Texas it assumed the additional mission of combat crew training for Lockheed F-104 Starfighter pilots.
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