337 FIS at "William Tell" 1959 at Tyndall AFB, Florida in September 1959

Officially designated the "USAF Air to Air Weapons Meet" "William Tell" was first held at Yuma, Arizona in 1954 (as part of the USAF Fighter Gunnery & Weapons Meet)
In 1958 it moved to it's current home of Tyndall AFB, Florida, home for the USAF Worldwide Air-to-Air Weapons Meet

337th Fighter Interceptor Squadron Westover AFB, Massachusetts
The 337th FIS was activated in July 1954 at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport with F-89Ds. In August 1955 the unit designation was transferred to an F-86D unit at Westover AFB.
It received F-86Ls in early 1957 and transitioned to F-104s in the spring of 1958. The squadron was deactivated on July 8, 1960.

According to legend, a medieval Austrian governor of Switzerland became enraged when a Swiss citizen refused to comply with his order
to perform a trivial act of obeisance. Knowing of the subject's prowess as a bowman, the governor offered him the alternative of complying
with the order or shooting an apple off his son's head. The archer chose to shoot the apple, and succeeded.
Through the years the name of William Tell has become synonymous with skilled marksmanship in defense of freedom.
Thus today's air defense units can be considered contemporary extensions of the William Tell tradition.

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