The 62d Fighter Wing is an inactive United States Army Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Twelfth Air Force, based at Pomigliano Airfield

Pomigliano Airfield

Pomigliano Airfield was a military airfield and base in Pomigliano d'Arco, southern Italy. It was attacked on several occasions by the United States Army Air Force...

, Italy. It was inactivated on 12 September 1945.

History

Formed at Mitchel Field, New York in December 1942. Departed New York 13 January 1943 via Brooklyn Port of Embarkation. Arrived Casablanca, French Morocco on 30 January 1943 and assigned to Twelfth Air Force. Primary mission was fighter escort; air defense using night fighter units; harbor protection; homing of lost aircraft and air-sea rescue.

Lineage

• Constituted as 1st Air Defense Wing on 12 December 1942 and activated the same day.

Redesignated 62d Fighter Wing in July 1943.

Inactivated in Italy on 12 September 1945.

Assignments

• First Air Force
  First Air Force
  The First Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command . It is headquartered at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida....
  
  , 12 December 1942 – 13 January 1943
• Twelfth Air Force, 30 January 1943 – 12 September 1945

Stations

• Mitchel Field, New York, 12 December 1942 – 13 January 1943
• Casablanca Airfield, French Morocco
  French Morocco
  French Protectorate of Morocco was a French protectorate in Morocco, established by the Treaty of Fez. French Morocco did not include the north of the country, which was a Spanish protectorate...
  
  , 30 January 1943
• Sousse Airfield
  Sousse Airfield
  Sousse Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Tunisia, which was located in the vicinity of Sousse. It was a temporary airfield used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force 31st Fighter Group which flew two squadrons of Supermarine Spitfires from the field...
  
  , Tunisia, 14 May 1943
• Palermo Airfield, Sicily, 25 July 1943
• Naples
  Naples
  Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
  
  , Italy, 20 October 1943
• Antignano
  Antignano
  Antignano is a comune in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southeast of Turin and about 8 km southwest of Asti...
  
  , Italy, c. 15 September 1944
• Pomigliano Airfield
  Pomigliano Airfield
  Pomigliano Airfield was a military airfield and base in Pomigliano d'Arco, southern Italy. It was attacked on several occasions by the United States Army Air Force...
  
  , Italy, August-12 September 1945.

Components

• 414th Night Fighter Squadron, 21 September 1944 – 1 April 1945
• 415th Night Fighter Squadron
  415th Night Fighter Squadron
  The 415th Tactical Fighter Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with 49th Fighter Wing stationed at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico...
  
  , 20 June – 7 August 1943; 27 September 1943 – 5 August 1944
• 416th Night Fighter Squadron, 28 January – 27 June 1944

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