72nd Fighter Wing

The wing was initially activated as a command and control organization for heavy bomber training. In 1943 it became single-engine fighter training organization for Second Air Force.^[1] The wing had jurisdiction for fighter training Operational Training Units and Replacement Training Units in the midwest. Bases assigned to the wing included:^{[citation needed]}

• Constituted as 72d Bombardment Operational Training Wing (Heavy) on 12 August 1943

Activated on 20 August 1943

Redesigned 72d Fighter Wing on 1 September 1943

Inactivated on 9 April 1946^[1]

• Disbanded on 15 June 1983^[2]
• Reconstituted on 31 July 1985 and redesigned 372d Electronic Warfare Group^[3]
• Disbanded on 9 September 1992

• Second Air Force, 12 August 1943 – 9 April 1946^[1]

• 36th Fighter Group, 17 September 1943 – 4 April 1944
• 84th Fighter Group, 1 November 1943 – 1 April 1944
• 357th Fighter Group, 7 October – 9 November 1943
• 407th Fighter Group, 9 March 1943 – 21 March 1944
• 408th Fighter Group, 1 November 1943 – 1 April 1944
• 476th Fighter Group, 26 March-1 April 1944
• 507th Fighter Group, 12 October 1944 – 24 June 1945
• 508th Fighter Group, 12 October 1944 – 6 January 1945^[1]

• Rapid City Army Air Base, South Dakota, 20 August 1943
• Colorado Springs Army Air Base, Colorado, 7 October 1943
• Peterson Field, Colorado, November 1943;
• Colorado Springs Army Air Base, Colorado, December 1945-9 April 1946

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• American Theater of World War II

  This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

• Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961]. Air Force Combat Units of World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-02-1.