322d Fighter Squadron

322d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
322d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron McDonnell F-101B Voodoo at Kingsley Field
Active	1942–1944; 1955- 1968
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Fighter Interceptor
Part of	Air Defense Command
Motto(s)	Ever Alert
Insignia
322d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron emblem (approved 31 May 1956)

The 322d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 408th Fighter Group at Kingsley Field, Oregon, where it was inactivated on 1 July 1968.

The squadron was first activated as the 322d Fighter Squadron in the summer of 1942 as part of I Fighter Command. It flew early-model Republic P-47B Thunderbolts as part of the air defense of New York in the early part of World War II. It then became a P-47D Operational training unit (OTU) in New England. It was reassigned to III Fighter Command and moved to North Carolina in 1943 as a Replacement Training Unit (RTU). The squadron was disbanded in April 1944 as part of a reorganization of training units.

The squadron was reconstituted as the 322d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and reactivated in 1955 at Larson Air Force Base, Washington. The squadron assumed the mission, personnel and aircraft of the inactivating 31st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron as part of "Project Arrow", an Air Defense Command (ADC) program which was designed to bring back on the active list the fighter units which had compiled memorable records in the two world wars. The squadron was equipped with radar equipped and Mighty Mouse rocket armed North American F-86D Sabres. The squadron was upgraded to the North American F-86L, an improved version of the Sabre which incorporated the Semi Automatic Ground Environment computer-controlled direction system for intercepts. The service of the F-86L was quite brief, since by the time the last F-86L conversion was delivered, the type was already being phased out in favor of supersonic interceptors.