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The 331st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive U. Its last assignment was with A. IR DEFENSE COMMAND at W. EBB Air Force BASE, Texas, where it was inactivated on 1 March 1967. Replacement training unit on the west coast of the United States. It performed this mission until it was disbanded in 1944 in a major reorganization of. Training and support units. The squadron was reactivated in 1953 as part of the expansion on air defenses. And served in this role from bases in New York until 1958, when it moved to Texas. In Texas it assumed the additional mission of combat crew training for LOCKHEED F-104 STARFIGHTER pilots. In the summer of 1955 ADC began Project Arrow, which was designed to bring back on the active list the fighter units which had compiled memorable records in the two world wars. As part of this reorganization, the 331st’s World War II headquarters, the. Was reactivated at Stewart Air Force Base. TERRIFIC VINTAGE award (heavy flat metal disc)’TO PUNCH FROM B FLIGHT,’ with the names of. Six pilots, dated in the summer of’55, at the time of the implementation of PROJECT ARROW. A Whopping 16 inches in diameter.