Lineage

• Organized as 71st Fighter Wing on 11 Ocg 1943

Activated on 15 August 1943

Inactivated on 3 December 1945

• Activated on 24 May 1946

Disbanded on 31 October 1950

Assignments

• Fourth Air Force
  Fourth Air Force
  The Fourth Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Reserve . It is headquartered at March Air Reserve Base, California....
  
  , 15 August – 23 December 1943
• IX Tactical Air Command
  IX Tactical Air Command
  The IX Tactical Air Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Ninth Air Force, based at Camp Shanks, New York...
  
  , 4 December 1943 – 1 July 1944
• IX Air Defense Command
  IX Air Defense Command
  The IX Air Defense Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Ninth Air Force, based at Neustadt, Germany...
  
  , 1 July 1944 – November 1945
• Missouri
  Missouri
  Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
  
   Air National Guard
  Air National Guard
  The Air National Guard , often referred to as the Air Guard, is the air force militia organized by each of the fifty U.S. states, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia of the United States. Established under Title 10 and...
  
  , 24 May 1946 – 31 October 1950

Stations

• March Field, California, 15 August – 26 November 1943
• RAF Aldermaston
  RAF Aldermaston
  RAF Aldermaston was a World War II airfield. It was used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Eighth and Ninth Air Force as a troop carrier group base, and was assigned USAAF station No 467.-Origins:...
  
   (AAF-467), England, 23 December 1943
• RAF Greenham Common
  RAF Greenham Common
  RAF Station Greenham Common is a former military airfield in Berkshire, England. The airfield is located approximately south-southwest of Thatcham; about west of London....
  
   (AAF-486), England, 14 January 1944
• RAF Andover
  RAF Andover
  Andover Airfield is a former Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station. The ICAO code for the airfield is EGWA and the IATA code is ADV...
  
   (AAF-406), England, 1 March – 4 July 1944
• Ecrammeville
  Écrammeville
  -References:*...
  
  , France, 7 July 1944
• St-Pierre-Eglise, France, 4 August 1944
• Ecrammeville
  Écrammeville
  -References:*...
  
  , France, 7 August 1944
• Rennes Airfield (A-27), France, 20 August 1944

• Versailles
  Versailles
  Versailles , a city renowned for its château, the Palace of Versailles, was the de facto capital of the kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789. It is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and remains an important administrative and judicial centre...
  
  , France, 9 September 1944
• Vittel
  Vittel
  Vittel is a commune in the Vosges department in Lorraine in northeastern France.Mineral water is bottled and sold here by Nestlé Waters France, under the Vittel brand.-History:...
  
  , France, 23 October 1944
• Heidelberg
  Heidelberg
  -Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...
  
  , Germany, 23 April 1945
• Nancy, France, 21 May 1945
• Nancy/Essey Airfield (Y-42), France, 16 July 1945
• Darmstadt
  Darmstadt
  Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
  
  , Germany, 25 September–November 1945
• Camp Shanks
  Camp Shanks
  Camp Shanks, named after Major General David Carey Shanks was a United States Army installation in and around Orangeburg in the Town of Orangetown, New York. Situated near the juncture of the Erie Railroad and the Hudson River, it served as a point of embarkation for troops departing overseas...
  
  , New York, 2–3 December 1945.

Components

• 366th Fighter Group: 10 January 1944 – 3 December 1945
• 368th Fighter Group
  136th Airlift Wing
  The United States Air Force's 136th Airlift Wing is an airlift unit located at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth. The wing operates the Lockheed C-130H cargo/transport aircraft and is the parent unit of the 181st Airlift Squadron.-Mission:...
  
  : 13 January 1944 – 3 December 1945
• 370th Fighter Group
  370th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group
  The 370th Air Expeditionary Group is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Education and Training Command. It may be activated or inactivated at any time. Currently, the unit is stationed in Southwest Asia...
  
  : 12 February 1944 – September 1945

Operations