History
- For additional history, see 56th Fighter Wing
(Except where noted, this material prior to 1958 is extracted from Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) . Air Force Combat Units of World War II (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-02-1. ).
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