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Cave Tigrim 460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Patch – Plastic Backing

$11.99

Airmen, enjoy this Cave Tigrim 460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Patch.  You’ll be able to wear this patch proudly.

  • 3.5″x4.5″
  • Embroidered
  • US Veteran-Owned Business

90 in stock

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Cave Tigrim 460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Patch

Airmen, enjoy this Cave Tigrim 460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Patch.  You’ll be able to wear this patch proudly.

  • 3.5″x4.5″
  • Embroidered
  • US Veteran-Owned Business

460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron-ADC-White-1970s.jpgThe 460th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Tactical Air Command’s 325th Fighter Weapons Wing at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, where it was inactivated on 15 October 1982.

World War II
Established in late 1942 as a ground support squadron. Deployed to the Pacific Theater of Operations in 1943 to Australia where the unit functioned as a ground support unit at Sydney Airport, then at Dobodura in New Guinea. Converted to a P-47 Thunderbolt operational combat unit, engaged in fighter-bomber operations against Japanese positions in New Guinea, Netherlands East Indies and also during the Philippines Campaign (1944–1945). Moved to Okinawa, then Japan after the Japanese Capitulation as part of the Occupation Force, inactivated in 1946.

Air defense

P47 D 460th Fighter Squadron 1944
Reactivated in 1954 as part of the U.S. Air Force Air Defense Command, stationed at Knoxville, for air defense of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and TVA dams in eastern Tennessee. Moved to Portland AFB, Oregon, and flew air defense missions over the Pacific Northwest, later to southern California in 1968 at Oxnard AFB, which closed a year later; it then moved to Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota, until inactivated as part of the drawdown of ADC in 1974.

Fighter training
Reactivated briefly in early 1982 as an air defense training squadron at Tyndall AFB, Florida; inactivated late the same year.

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