54th Tactical Fighter Wing

54th Tactical Fighter Wing
16th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-4E Phantom II 67-0231, Kusan AB, South Korea, 1970
Active1943–1946; 1946–1950; 1970
Country United States
Branch United States Air Force
TypeWing
RoleFighter
EngagementsSouthwest Pacific Theater[1]
DecorationsPhilippine Presidential Unit Citation[1]

The 54th Tactical Fighter Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Pacific Air Forces Fifth Air Force, at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea where it was inactivated on 31 October 1970.

During World War II, the 54th Troop Carrier Wing was a Fifth Air Force airlift wing that commanded five combat cargo and troop carrier groups in the South West Pacific Theater.

In the early postwar years, the 54th Fighter Wing commanded 56 units of the Air National Guard throughout the Southeastern United States.

  1. ^ a b Ravenstein, pp. 86-88