| 9th Pursuit Wing 9th Fighter Wing 348th Tactical Electronics Group | |
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| Active | 1940–1943 1985– (inactive) |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | USAAF United States Air Forces |
| Role | 1940–1943 – Fighter 1985– Electronics |
The348th Tactical Electronics Group is an inactiveUnited States Air Force unit. The unit was active as the9th Pursuit Wing and the9th Fighter Wing during World War II. Although based atRAF Station Kabrit in Egypt assigned to theNinth Air Force it had no component units and was inactivated on 31 March 1943.
It was redesignated to its current name in 1985.
Assigned toFourth Air Force as prewar Pursuit Wing.[1] The 9th Pursuit Wing was activated on 18 December 1940. In the period until it was inactivated on 1 October 1941, its only component groups were the14th Fighter Group (10 June- 5 September 1941) and the51st Fighter Group (20 June–19 September 1941). The latter had been attached to4th Air Force) until 20 June 1941.[1] The wing was based atMarch Field, California.
The wing was reactivated on 24 July 1942 as the 9th Fighter Wing atDrew Field, Florida where it stayed until 13 December 1942 when it moved toEgypt in 1942. The wing was based atRAF Kabrit, Egypt from 1 February.[1] However allNinth Air Force fighter groups in the eastern desert were detached to theRoyal Air Force and none were assigned to a USAAF wing.[1] The wing was inactivated on 31 March 1943 but not formally disbanded until 15 June 1983.[2]
The wing was reconstituted and redesignated as the 348th Tactical Electronics Group on 31 July 1985[3] (not active).
This article incorporatespublic domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
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