In the summer of 1944, it was transferred to India, where it retrained on single engine fighters, then to China to reinforce Fourteenth Air Force.

It remained in China after V-J Day, but returned to the United States, where it was inactivated at the port of embarkation in November 1945.

[1] Moved overseas between October 1942 and February 1943,[1] the ground echelon established itself in French Morocco with the force that invaded North Africa on 8 November.

The air echelon, which had trained for a time in England, arrived in North Africa between late December 1942 and early February 1943.

The squadron continued training and on occasion flew patrols and escort missions before returning to full-time combat duty in January 1945.

It began upgrading to the F-86L in 1957, which incorporated the Semi Automatic Ground Environment, or SAGE computer-controlled direction system for intercepts.

List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954) This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency