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air-to-air missiles. The effect of F-104 deployment upon North
Vietnamese MiG operations was immediate and dramatic. MiGs soon learned to avoid contact with USAF strikes being covered by F-104s. During the entire deployment of the 476th only two fleeting encounters between F-104Cs and enemy fighters
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Operation Rolling Thunder in 1965, North Vietnamese fighter aircraft became a problem for attacking USAF and US Navy strike aircraft. In response, the 476th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 479th Tactical Fighter Wing from George AFB, California began regular rotations to
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were not well adapted to the training mission. Accordingly, in the spring of 1944, the 335th Group, its components and supporting units at
Barksdale, were disbanded on 1 May and replaced by the 331st AAF Base Unit (Medium, Bombardment). The squadron was replaced by Section P of the new base unit.
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334:(ROCAF) air defense mission. The squadron returned to the United States without aircraft in July 1968, the F-104Cs remaining in Taiwan and were sold to the ROCAF. The squadron planned to be re-equipped with
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as part of the phaseout of the F-104 from TAC, however the squadron was placed in nonoperational status and its personnel were transferred to the new 4535th Combat Crew
Training Squadron.
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Deployed to Morón Air Base, Spain, 12 November 1959 – 28 March 1960; 8 April – 17 August 1961; 6 January – 1 April 1964; Hahn Air Base, West
Germany, 8 April – 10 August 1962;
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squadron to be equipped with the new aircraft. It was primarily intended for nuclear strike, but it could also carry out ground attack missions with conventional weapons.
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Da Nang in April 1965. Their job was to fly MiG combat air patrol (MiGCAP) missions to protect
American fighter bombers against attack by North Vietnamese fighters.
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Department of the Air Force/MPM Letter 662q, 19 September 1985, Subject: Reconstitution, Redesignation, and
Consolidation of Selected Air Force Tactical Squadrons
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tactical strike version of the
Starfighter. Delays in development caused the squadron not to receive the F-104 until September 1958, when it was the first
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Organization and its Responsibilities, Chapter 2 The AAF". In Craven, Wesley F; Cate, James L. (eds.).
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training unit from 1942 to 1944, when it was disbanded in a reorganization of
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but did not become operational before it was inactivated in March 1969.
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B-26 Marauder as flown by the squadron during World War II
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23:(later 476th Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron)
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135:Patch with 476th Tactical Fighter Squadron emblem
1084:Fighter squadrons of the United States Air Force
1026:. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.
995:. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.
942:Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II
274:, however it was programmed to receive the new
182:It was consolidated in September 1985 with the
824:Craven, Wesley F; Cate, James L, eds. (1955).
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399:476th Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron
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827:The Army Air Forces in World War II
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272:North American F-100 Super Sabres
266:, California and assigned to the
262:was activated in October 1957 at
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499:Martin B-26 Marauder, 1942-1944
418:476th Tactical Fighter Squadron
389:474th Tactical Fighter Squadron
153:476th Tactical Fighter Squadron
101:Caeruli Ultra Sonitus Equites (
21:476th Tactical Fighter Squadron
343:Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
173:Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
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939:Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) .
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423:Inactivated on 18 March 1969
305:Republic F-84F Thunderstreak
207:World War II bomber training
34:479th Tactical Fighter Wing
582:476th Bombardment Squadron
413:Activated on 8 October 1957
332:Republic of China Air Force
276:Lockheed F-104C Starfighter
254:Tactical fighter operations
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543:28 July 1966 – 21 May 1967
453:50th Tactical Fighter Wing
428:476th Bombardment Squadron
406:476th Fighter-Day Squadron
377:476th Bombardment Squadron
370:476th Bombardment Squadron
336:McDonnell F-4C Phantom IIs
260:476th Fighter-Day Squadron
227:476th Bombardment Squadron
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184:476th Bombardment Squadron
165:Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
38:deployed to Southeast Asia
796:AF Pamphlet 900-2, p. 400
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482:Ching Chuan Kang Air Base
347:4th Tactical Fighter Wing
243:Replacement Training Unit
177:McDonnell F-4 Phantom IIs
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986:Mueller, Robert (1989).
241:. The 476th acted as a
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379:(Medium) on 9 July 1942
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213:335th Bombardment Group
194:training units, as the
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82:United States Air Force
814:public domain material
426:Consolidated with the
361:on 19 September 1985.
268:479th Fighter-Day Wing
247:tables of organization
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761:Ravenstein, pp. 12-14
322:20mm cannon and four
294:Boeing B-47 Stratojet
291:Strategic Air Command
264:George Air Force Base
239:Martin B-26 Marauders
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169:George Air Force Base
510:Awards and campaigns
434:on 19 September 1985
408:on 26 September 1957
280:Tactical Air Command
186:, which served as a
47:1942–1944; 1957–1969
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375:Constituted as the
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110:Engagements
607:References
327:occurred.
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683:3 January
597:1965–1966
558:Campaign
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494:Aircraft
467:Stations
299:base at
130:Insignia
98:Motto(s)
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