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The87th Fighter Wing is an inactiveUnited States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with theXXII Tactical Air Command, based atFlorence, Italy. It was inactivated on 11 October 1950.

• Constituted as87th Fighter Wing on 14 October 1943

Activated on 25 October 1943

Disbanded in Italy on 1 April 1945

• First Air Force, 25 October – 15 December 1943
• XXII Tactical Air Command, 11 January 1944 – 1 April 1945

• Mitchel Field, New York, 25 October – 15 December 1943
• Nouvion Airfield, Algeria, 11 January 1944
• Caserta (Naples),Italy, February 1944
• Bastia, Corsica, 28 March 1944
• Vescovato, Corsica, 9 May 1944
• Furiani, Corsica, 13 July 1944
• Caserta, Italy, 22 September 1944
• Florence Airfield, Italy, 25 December 1944 – 1 April 1945.

• 57th Fighter Group: 23 April – 10 September 1944
• 79th Fighter Group: June-25 August 1944
• 86th Fighter Group: 9–15 September 1944

Formed atMitchel Field, New York. Moved overseas toAlgeria, December 1943 – January 1944, and operated withTwelfth Air Force in the Mediterranean theater, primarily directing tactical fighter groups inItaly from April 1944 until the wing's groups were reassigned in September 1944 to XXII Tactical Air Command. Existed as a paper unit until inactivation in April 1945.

 This article incorporatespublic domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

• Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983.ISBN 0-89201-092-4.

• Fighter wings of the United States Army Air Forces
• Military units and formations established in 1943
• Military units and formations disestablished in 1945

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