22d Tactical Air Support Training Squadron
22d Attack Squadron
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| Active | 1941–1943; 1965–1988; 1988–1991; 2012–present |
| Country |
 United States
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| Branch |
 United States Air Force
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| Role | Unmanned aerial vehicle operation |
| Decorations |
Presidential Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with Combat "V" Device Vietnam Civil Actions Unit Citation Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm |
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| 22d Reconnaissance Sq emblem |  |
| Patch with 22d Tactical Air Support Training Squadron emblem |  |
| Patch with 22d Tactical Air Support Squadron emblem |  |
| Patch with 46th Bombardment Squadron emblem (approved 8 January 1943) |  |
The 22d Tactical Air Support Training Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 602d Tactical Air Control Wing, based at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. It was inactivated on 30 September 1991.
It has been in active service on four different occasions, and saw combat service in the early years of World War II and in the Vietnam War.
The squadron was first activated at March Field, California in January 1941 as the 46th Bombardment Squadron, one of the three original squadrons of the 41st Bombardment Group. The squadron moved to Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona and trained there with Douglas B-18 Bolos. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the squadron moved to Muroc Bombing Range and conducted antisubmarine patrols off the Pacific Coast from bases in California until the summer of 1942.
The squadron moved to the Atlantic Coast in July 1942 and its air echelon was attached to Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command in October and continued its patrols in this area. The squadron formally joined Antisubmarine Command in the spring of 1943, when it became the 22d Antisubmarine Squadron. In August 1943 as the Navy assumed responsibility for antisubmarine operations, the air echelon moved to England, conducting operations over the Bay of Biscay. The ground echelon remained in the United States and was inactivated in October 1943. The air echelon was disbanded in November.
Antisubmarine patrol flights were conducted in the squadron's assigned areas, producing a situation map that was continuously updated with enemy and friendly forces, convoys, and other pertinent information. The antisubmarine patrols also produced an enemy dispersion chart showing the disposition of all known enemy submarines in the entire Atlantic area.
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