379th Fighter Squadron

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379th Fighter Squadron
P-51H Mustang

The 379th Fighter Squadron is an inactive

Biggs Field

, Texas. It was inactivated on 1 August 1946.

History

Established on 1 March 1943 at

European Theater of Operations (ETO), and assigned to Ninth Air Force in England

. Engaged in combat operations until May 1945.

Reassigned back to the United States in August–September 1945, and assigned to

. Inactivated on 1 August due to postwar budget restrictions.

Lineage

Constituted 379th Fighter Squadron on 11 February 1943

Activated on 1 March 1943

Inactivated on 1 August 1946

Assignments

362d Fighter Group
, 1 March 1943 – 1 August 1946

Stations

Westover Field, Massachusetts
, 1 March 1943

Bradley Field, Connecticut, 22 June 1943
Groton Field, Connecticut
, 2 August 1943

, New York, 19 October – 12 November 1943

RAF Wormingford (AAF-159), England, 30 November 1943
RAF Headcorn (AAF-412), England, 13 April 1944
Lignerolles Airfield (A-12), France, 2 July 1944
Rennes/St-Jacques Airfield
(A-27), France, 10 August 1944

Prosnes Airfield (A-79), France, 19 September 1944
Verdun Airfield
(A-82), France, 5 November 1944
Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Airfield
(Y-73), Germany, 8 April 1945
Furth/Industriehafen Airfield (R-30), Germany, 30 April 1945
Illesheim Airfield
(R-10), Germany, 3 May 1945
AAF Station Straubing
, Germany, 12 May–August 1945
Seymour Johnson Field, North Carolina
, 5 September 1945

, Texas, 3 December 1945 – 1 August 1946.

Joe Foss Field, aka Sioux Falls Regional Airport, South Dakota, 2015 – present

Aircraft

P-47D Thunderbolt
, 1943–1945
P-51H Mustang
, 1945–1946

References

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.
OCLC 72556
.

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