460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron

460th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron
460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron F-106 Delta Darts
Active	1942–1982
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Type	Fighter-Interceptor Training
Motto(s)	Cave Tigrim Latin Beware of the Tiger
Decorations	Distinguished Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
Insignia
Patch with 460th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron emblem
Patch with 460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron emblem (approved 17 January 1955)

The 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.

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.

Reactivated in 1954 as part of the United States Air Force Air Defense Command, stationed at Knoxville, Tennessee for air defense of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and TVA Dams in Eastern Tennessee. Moved to Portland Airport, Oregon and flew air defense missions over the Pacific Northwest, later to Southern California in 1968. When Oxnard Air Force Base closed in 1969, moved to Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota until inactivated as part of the drawdown of ADC in 1974.

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

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.