The IX Fighter Command was a United States Army Air Forces formation. Its last assignment was with the Ninth Air Force, based at Erlangen, Germany, where it was inactivated on 16 November 1945.
Command P-47 Thunderbolt, the most common tactical aircraft in the command
370th Fighter Group P-38 Lightning
Captain Edwin O. Fisher, 362d Fighter Group, 7 aerial victories; 3 V-1 Flying Bombs; 25 enemy vehicles and 5 locomotives.
Elwood Richard Quesada, CB, CBE, nicknamed "Pete", was a United States Air Force Lt. General, FAA administrator, and, later, a club owner in Major League Baseball.
Lt Gen. Elwood R. Quesada
Watercolor portrait of Major General Ellwood R. Quesada, 9th Air Force, United States Army Air Force 1945