High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 78th Fighter Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the San Francisco Air Defense Sector, being assigned to Hamilton Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on 1 February 1961. During World War II the group was an Eighth Air Force fighter unit stationed in England assigned primarily to RAF Duxford. It claimed 338 air and 358 ground aircraft destroyed. It flew its last misson on 13 April 1945. The 78th Fighter Group was activated in 1942. It initially trained for combat with P-38's and served as part of the west coast air defense organization. Moved to England in November 1942 and was assigned to Eighth Air Force. The group lost its P-38's and most of its pilots in February 1943 when they were assigned to Twelfth Air Force for service in the North African campaign

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