page_title: 4756th Air Defense Wing
section_title: Second wing
hierarchical_section_title: 4756th Air Defense Wing / History / Second wing
caption_attribution_description: English: USAF Air Defense Weapons Center Convair TF-102A-38-CO Delta Dagger 56-2317 Tyndall AFB, Florida, November 1968 (Photo taken at Andrews AFB, Maryland) 56-2317 converted to PQM-102A target drone however was never expended. Was placed on static display with Yankee Air Force Museum, Ypsilanti, Michigan
context_page_description: The 4756th Air Defense Wing was the designation of two different discontinued United States Air Force organizations. Both wings were stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida and fulfilled similar missions. The first was organized in 1957 when Air Defense Command assumed responsibility for managing Tyndall from Air Training Command and focused on weapons testing and development and evaluating the readiness of ADC fighter units. The wing also controlled a ground control intercept radar squadron. This wing was discontinued in 1960 and its mission transferred to its parent 73d Air Division.
  The second wing was organized in 1962. It also conducted testing, but focused on crew training for interceptor aircraft. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the wing also assumed an alert state at bases in Florida. This wing was discontinued in 1968 and its mission transferred to the Air Defense Weapons Center, which had replaced the 73d Air Division at Tyndall in 1966.
context_section_description: The second wing provided interceptor combat crew training for McDonnell F-101 Voodoo and Convair F-106 Delta Dart aircrews, interceptor aircraft weapons training, and conducted operational testing and evaluation of manned interceptors, fire-control systems, and armament.  The wing was ADC's only unit conducting live firing and operating target control systems after the 4750th Air Defense Wing at Vincent Air Force Base, Arizona was discontinued.
  Following the Cuban Revolution, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) developed a plan for reinforcing air defenses in southern Florida, named Operation Southern Tip.  On 7 April 1961 the JCS tested Operation Southern Tip in which the 4756th wing deployed six F-102s to Homestead Air Force Base, where they stood five minute alert.  The same month the Bay of Pigs Invasion occurred and the JCS decided not to terminate the exercise, but to retain the aircraft at Homestead.  In July, the number of aircraft was reduced to four and the 482d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron assumed the alert mission from the wing.
  During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, elements of the wing assumed an air defense alert mission.  Initially, a total of 60 F-101, F-102 and F-106 aircraft at Tyndall were placed on alert. On 19 November, however, these airplanes were released to resume training and testing except for eight F-102s and TF-102s that remained on strip alert
  After the crisis, the wing established a Detachment at Key West Naval Air Station to perform the air defense alert mission.  The second wing was discontinued at the start of 1968 and its mission transferred to the Air Defense Weapons Center.
caption: TF-102A Delta Dagger 56-2317 at Tyndall AFB in 1968
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