80th Fighter Group

80th Flying Training Wing
T-6A Texan II (left) T-38C Talon (right) of 80th Flying Training Wing
Active	1942-1945; 1972–present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Type	Training
Part of	Air Education and Training Command
Garrison/HQ	Sheppard Air Force Base
Nickname(s)	Burma Banshees (WW II)
Motto(s)	Angels on Our Wings (WW II)
Engagements	Burma Campaign 1944-1945
Decorations	Distinguished Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Commanders
Commander	Colonel Gregory S. Keeton
Vice-Commander	Colonel Vacant
Command Chief Master Sergeant	Chief Master Sergeant Joseph D. Pritchard
Insignia
80th Flying Training Wing emblem

The 80th Flying Training Wing (80 FTW) is a wing of the United States Air Force based out of Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas.

The 80th FTW is home of the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) Program. ENJJPT, established in the spirit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), is the world's only multi-nationally manned and managed flying training program chartered to produce combat pilots for NATO.

80th Operations Group (80 OG)

The 80th Pursuit Group (Interceptor) was constituted on 13 January 1942 and activated on February 1942. It was redesignated as the 80th Fighter Group in May 1942. During World War II, the group was the first USAAF unit to be stationed in Burma after the Allied retreat in 1942. During its two years in combat, this group, which called itself the Burma Banshees, kept the supply lines open to China while clearing the way for Allied forces and US Army units such as Merrill's Marauders to sweep Japanese forces from northern Burma.

The 80th trained for combat and served as part of the defense force for the northeastern United States from, 1942–1943. It's flying squadrons were the 88th, 89th, and 90th Pursuit (later Fighter) Squadrons. It first trained with the P-47 Thunderbolt and later in the Curtis P-40.

The 80th sailed for India, via Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and Ceylon, in May 1943, commencing combat operations in the China-Burma-India theater in September 1943. The group supported Allied ground forces during the battle for northern Burma and the push southward to Rangoon, bombing and strafing troop concentrations, supply dumps, lines of communication, artillery positions, and other objectives.