IX Tactical Air Command | American Air Museum in Britain

US Air Force Combat Units of World War II Description: Constituted as IX Air Support Command on 29 Nov 1943.... Redesignated IX Tactical Air Command in Apr 1944. Operated in the European theater, primarily in support of US First Army, until V-E Day. Moved to the US in Oct 1945. Inactivated on 25 Oct 1945. Disbanded on 8 Oct 1948.

Structure

Part of

Encompassing

100th Fighter Wing

Wing
303rd Fighter Wing

Wing
70th Fighter Wing

Wing
71st Fighter Wing

Wing
84th Fighter Wing

Wing
50th Fighter Group

Group
Before the build-up to D-Day, the group were based in the United States as part of the Fighter School Command and the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics. In spring 1944 though, like so many other fighter and bomb groups, the 50th Fighter Group...
Headquarters (IX Tactical Air Command)

Headquarters
2018th Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon

Platoon
Unit departed New York Port of Embarkation on 8 October 1943 on the S.S. Thurston arriving at Courock, Scotland on 17 October 1943.

Previously was

Became

Not yet known

Station	Location	Date
Based	Uxbridge	February 1944 – June 1944

John Griffin

Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot, P-38 Model J-15 | 370th Fighter Group
John V. "Jack" Griffin was the oldest son of George Joseph Griffin and Irene Margaret Bailey Griffin. His sister, Patricia Griffin Burch, refers to him as "the handsome one". Per her recollection, he always wanted to fly and took private lessons in...
Harold Jones

Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 365th Fighter Group

Cited in the Order of the Day, Belgian Army: 6 Jun-30 Sep 1944; 16 Dec 1944-25 Jan 1945. Belgian Fourragere.

Date	Contributor	Update
25 September 2019 13:55:23	Emily	Changes to citations and stations
Sources
Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Date	Contributor	Update
25 September 2019 13:52:59	Emily	Changes to us air force combat units of world war ii description
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Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:42:43	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)