114th Fighter Squadron The 114th Fighter Squadron ( 114 FS ) is a unit of the Oregon Air National Guard 173d Fighter Wing located at Kingsley Field Air National Guard Base , Klamath Falls , Oregon . The 114th is equipped with the F - 15C Eagle . History . World War II . Activated in mid - 1942 as a B - 26 Marauder medium bombardment group . Trained under Third Air Force in Louisiana ; reassigned to the European Theater of Operations ( ETO ) , being assigned initially to VIII Air Support Command in England in September 1942 . Flew several missions over France and Belgium from its base in England during October , then being reassigned to the new Twelfth Air Force in Algeria . During the North African Campaign , engaged in tactical bomb strikes of enemy targets , primarily in eastern Algeria and Tunisia , including railroads , airfields , harbor installations , and enemy shipping along the Mediterranean Coast . Squadron returned to French Morocco in March 1943 , then returned to combat in June 1943 , attacking enemy targets on Italian island in the Mediterranean , including Sicily , Sardinia , and Pantelleria . From bases in Algeria and Tunisia , the group supported the Allied invasion of Italy , bombing bridges and marshalling yards during the late summer and early autumn of 1943 . In November , it moved to Sardinia , to strike Axis targets in central Italy . Early in 1944 , the squadron supported Allied ground forces as they advanced in the Cassino and Anzio areas . Later in the year , the group attacked German supply lines in northern Italy , bombing bridges , marshalling yards , and roads . During the summer , it bombed bridges over the Po River in northern Italy to block the stream of German supplies and reinforcements going southward . Supported the invasion of southern France in August 1944 by attacking coastal batteries , radar stations , and bridges . From Corsica , it hit railroad bridges in Northern Italy and late in the year attacked railroad lines through the Brenner Pass that connected Germany and Austria with Italy . In January 1945 , the squadron returned to the United States , where it began to train with A - 26 aircraft for operations in the Pacific Theater . Between May and July 1945 , moved by ship to Okinawa , and on 16 July flew its first mission against Japan . From then until the end of the fighting in early August , the squadron attacked enemy targets such as airfields and industrial centers on Kyūshū and occupied Shanghai area of China , and shipping around the Ryukyu Islands and in the East China Sea . In November and December 1945 , the squadron returned to the United States and was inactivated . New York Air National Guard . Initially allocated to the Oregon Air National Guard , 24 May 1946 . Was transferred to the New York ANG and received federal recognition on 26 June 1946 by the National Guard Bureau as the 114th Bombardment Squadron ( Light ) . The 114th Bombardment Squadron was bestowed the history , honors , and colors of the 439th Bombardment Squadron . Was equipped with B - 26 Invader light bombers , being assigned to the 106th Bombardment Group at Floyd Bennett Field , Brooklyn . When the Korean War broke out in June 1950 , the entire 106th Bombardment Group was federalized and brought to active duty . The Group was moved to March Air Force Base , California and assigned to Fifteenth Air Force , Strategic Air Command . It was assigned B - 29 Superfortress medium bombers , with the mission of the 106th Bomb Group was the training of reservists to backfill rotating B - 29 combat crews serving on Okinawa . The Group served with SAC until returning to New York state control on 1 December 1952 . Upon return to Floyd Bennett Field , the 114th again was equipped with B - 26s and resumed training with its light bombers and flew them until its conversion to an air defense fighter unit in 1956 . Under Air Defense Command , the 106th Fighter - Interceptor Group initially received Lockheed F - 94A Starfire s and in 1957 the North American F - 86D Sabre Interceptor . The State of New York was notified by HQ United States Air Force on 26 September 1957 that support for the 114th Fighter - Interceptor Squadron would be ended due to fiscal constraints . Despite protests from the Governor of New York State that this was in violation of the law with respect to State militia units , the Air Force eventually prevailed and the 114th FIS was inactivated on 30 September 1958 . Oregon Air National Guard . The 8123d Fighter - Interceptor Training Squadron was organized by the Oregon Air National Guard at Kingsley Field , Oregon as a provisional unit in January 1983 as an F - 4C Phantom II Formal Training Unit ( FTU ) for the interceptor pilots of the 123d Fighter - Interceptor Squadron at Portland International Airport . On 1 October 1983 the unit was formally organized and federally recognized by the National Guard Bureau as the 114th Fighter - Interceptor Squadron , with the 114th designation being transferred back to the Oregon Air National Guard . With the phaseout of the F - 4C from the inventory in the late 1980s , the 114th was re - equipped with the F - 16A / B block 15 Air Defense Fighter and continued its mission as a Formal Training Unit . On 1 April 1996 , the 173d Fighter Wing was formed at Kingsley AGB as a host organization and parent unit for the 114th Fighter Squadron when the unit was authorized to expand , with the 114th being transferred from the 142d Fighter Wing at Portland to the new Wing at Kingsley ANGB . Along with the 114th FS , the 173d consists of the 173d Operations Group ; 173d Maintenance Group , 173d Mission Support Group and 173d Medical Group . With the 123d Fighter Squadron flying F - 15 Eagle s , the F - 16As were retired in the late 1990s as their service life was ending . The squadron began receiving F - 15A / B Eagles in 1998 . Was upgraded to the F - 15C / C Eagle in 2004 , continuing its mission as an ANG interceptor training unit .