The III Fighter Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was at MacDill Field, Florida. It was inactivated on 8 April 1946.
P-51 Mustang of the command's 42d Fighter Squadron at Hillsborough Army Air Field in 1944
The 54th Fighter Group is an active unit of the United States Air Force stationed at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico and assigned to the 49th Wing of Air Combat Command. The group was reactivated
III Fighter Command
…52nd Fighter Group: 26 November 1942 – 1 May 1944 54th Pursuit Group (later 54th Fighter Group), 18 April 1942 – 1 May 1944 56th Pursuit Group: attached 17 June 1941, assigned 2 October 1941 – 15 January 1942…
F-16 Fighting Falcon as flown by the 54th Fighter Group