From July 1942 onward, St-Andr?was used primarily as a day interceptor fighter airfield against the USAAF Eighth Air Force heavy bomber offensive over Occupied Europe and Germany.
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However, the facilities at Stout Field were inadequate for jet interceptor fighters and as a result the squadron was moved to Hulman Field, at Terre Haute, on 1 January 1954.
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Also formed were the Air Armies of the military districts, and operated predominantly interceptor fighter aircraft . Many of these formations and units were subsequently transferred to the Frontal Air Armies.
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Meanwhile, Iraqi air attacks on Iran were repulsed by Iran's F-14 Tomcat interceptor fighter jets, using Phoenix missiles, which downed a dozen of Iraq's Soviet-built fighters in the first two days of battle.
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World War II style bomber formations escorted by fighters was obsolete due to the fact that SAC's jet bombers flew so fast and so high that they were virtually immune from interceptor fighters.
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In January 1947 Brennan took charge of helicopter development when Saunders-Roe took over the development contract on the SR . 177 mixed ( rocket and jet )-powered interceptor fighters and the Black Knight programme.
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Throughout the mission, the pilot was faced with the unnerving spectacle of a never-ending stream of Soviet interceptor fighters attempting to bring down the RF-100A by firing a variety of machine-guns, cannons and missiles at the aircraft.
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As a result of the Western Allied invasion of Germany beginning in March, 1945, Kitzingen became an operational combat airfield when elements of Kampfgeschwader 54 ( KG 54 ) arrived, flying the new Messerschmitt Me 262A jet interceptor fighter.
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In 1944 it was used as a night interceptor fighter airfield as part of the Defense of the Reich campaign, with NJG 2, operating Ju 88C / R night fighters against RAF night bomber attacks during March-April of that year.
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As production continued, the Typhoon's role changed from a low-level interceptor fighter to a fighter bomber; bomb racks capable of carrying 500-lb ( 227 kg ) bombs were being fitted to the wings from October 1942 and were first used operationally by radiator bath.
