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- The 93d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Albuquerque Air Defense Sector at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, where it was inactivated on 8 July 1960. The squadron was activated as the 93d Fighter Squadron. Following training in the United States, it deployed with Lockheed P-38 Lightnings to North Africa, entering combat in January 1943. It moved forward with Allied forces through Sicily to mainland Italy. In the summer of 1944, it was transferred to India, where it retrained on single engine fighters, then to China to reinforce Fourteenth Air Force. It remained in China after V-J Day, but returned to the United States, where it was inactivated at the port of embarkation in November 1945. The squadron was activated the following year in Hawaii, where it served until inactivating in 1949. Shortly thereafter, it was reactivated at Kirtland and equipped with jet fighters. (en)
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