XIth

Fighter Command



Lineage

  8 Mar 1942 - Constituted XI Interceptor Command
15 Mar 1942 - Activated
     May 1942 - Redesignated XI Fighter Command
     Jun 1942 - Oct 1943 - Engaged in combat
31 Mar 1944 - Disbanded

Groups

1942 - 1944 - 343rd Fighter Group

Stations

15 Mar 1942 - Elmendorf Field, AK
12 Sep 1943 - 31 Mar 1944 - Adak, AK
21 Feb 1941 - Elmendorf Field, AK

Commanders

15 Mar 1942 - Col Norman D. Sillin
  6 Sep 1942 - Col Phineas K. Morrill Jr.
15 Jul  1943 - Lt Col Donald E. Meade
25 Feb 1944 - Col William E. Elder
20-31 Mar 1944 - Lt Col Don L. Wilhelm Jr.

Campaigns
Aleutian Islands

Decorations
None

Emblem
None



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11th Air Force
XI Bomber Command
XI Fighter Command
28th Composite Group
Bomb Squadrons
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Non Flying Units
Chronology
Fighter Squadrons
War Stories
Credits
Reunions


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