IX Fighter Command

IX Fighter Command
Command P-47 Thunderbolt, the most common tactical aircraft in the command[note 1]
Active	1942–1945
Country	United States
Branch	United States Army (1942-47)  United States Air Force (1947-48)
Role	Command of fighter units
Engagements	European Theater of Operations[1]
Commanders
Notable commanders	Maj Gen Elwood Richard Quesada

The IX Fighter Command was a United States Army Air Forces formation. Its last assignment was with the Ninth Air Force, based at Erlangen, Germany, where it was inactivated on 16 November 1945.

IX Fighter Command was the primary tactical fighter air arm of Ninth Air Force in the Western Desert Campaign in North Africa during 1942–1943. Transferred to England, it became the dominant tactical air force over the skies of Western Europe during the 1944 Battle of Normandy and the Western Allied invasion of Germany in 1945.

After its inactivation, the majority of its (along with Twelfth Air Force) units were incorporated into the postwar United States Air Force Tactical Air Command.

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