330th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron

The 330th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 329th Fighter Group at Stewart Air Force Base, New York, where it was inactivated on 1 July 1959.
It was first active as the 330th Fighter Squadron during World War II, serving as an Operational Training Unit and later as a Replacement Training Unit until being disbanded in a general reorganization of Army Air Forces in the spring of 1944. It was reactivated in November 1942 as an air defense unit.

History

World War II

Trained replacement pilots, September 1942 – March 1944; furnished cadres for fighter squadrons, January–December 1943.; served as part of air defense force for the west coast, 1943.

Cold War air defense

Air defense of the Northeastern United States, 1954–1967.

Lineage

Constituted as the 330th Fighter Squadron on 24 June 1942
Reconstituted and redesignated 330th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 14 November 1952

Assignments

329th Fighter Group, 10 July 1942 – 31 March 1944
4709th Defense (later Air Defense) Wing, 27 November 1952
4700th Air Defense Group, 20 September 1954
329th Fighter Group, 18 August 1955 – 1 July 1959

Stations

Hamilton Field, California, 10 July 1942
Paine Field, Washington, 14 July 1942
Glendale Army Air Base, California, 10 September 1942
Lindbergh Field, California, 2 November 1942 – 31 March 1944
Stewart Air Force Base, New York, 27 November 1952 – 1 July 1959