Welcome to13th Fighter Squadron
The 13th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Minot Air Defense Sector, stationed at Glasgow Air Force Base, Montana where it was inactivated on 30 June 1968.
The squadron was first activated in January 1941 as the 13th Pursuit Squadron As the 13th Fighter Squadron it participated in the air defense of the Panama Canal from 1941 until 1943 when it returned to the United States and became a training unit until it was disbanded in 1944.
World War II
It was activated in early 1941 as the 13th Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor) and assigned to the Southeast Air District. It was equipped with a series of pursuit aircraft with a mission of air defense of Florida. After the Pearl Harbor Attack, the squadron was one of several hastily deployed to the Panama Canal Zone for the defense of the canal with the United States entry into World War II.
When They're closed Japan Air Forces Create 13th Fighter Squadron [13th FS]
(Base Code: WW)
The 13th Fighter Squadron "Panthers" based out of Misawa Air Base, Japan, are a combat-ready F-16CJ "Wild Weasel" fighter squadron supporting higher headquarters-directed operations worldwide. It generates and flies sorties in the interdiction, offensive, and defensive counter air, and the suppression of enemy air defense roles.
They established a brilliant combat record throughout the Vietnam War, transitioning to the F-4D, and flying over 30,000 combat sorties while logging 11 MiG kills, making the squadron the number three MiG killer of the conflict, and producing the war's third and final ace, Captain Jeff Feinstein. In 1970, the squadron adopted an Asian black panther they named "Eldridge", and from then on they were known as the "Panther Pack".