The Trinidad Wing, Antilles Air Command is an inactive

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unit. Its last assignment was with

Antilles Air Command The Antilles Air Command is a disbanded United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Sixth Air Force, based at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, where it was inactivated on 25 August 1946. Engaged in antisubmarine operations, 1941� ...

Waller Field Waller Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force World War II air base located in northeastern Trinidad. It is located about 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Valencia south of the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway and roughly 32 km from t ...

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...

. It was disbanded on 15 March 1944.

History

Engaged in antisubmarine operations.

Lineage

* Constituted as the 6th Interceptor Command on 17 October 1941Maurer indicates that the unit was constituted as the "VI" Interceptor Command. However, the unit was constituted and activated with an

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in its name. The use of

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s to designate Army Air Forces combat commands did not begin until September 1942. : Activated on 25 October 1941 : Redesignated 6th Fighter Command 15 May 1942 : Redesignated VI Fighter Command c. 18 September 1942 : Redesignated Trinidad Wing, Antilles Air Command in October 1943. : Disbanded on 15 March 1944Maurer, ''Combat Units'', p. 430

Assignments

Sixth Air Force Sixth is the ordinal form of the number six. * The Sixth Amendment, to the U.S. Constitution * A keg of beer, equal to 5 U.S. gallons or barrel * The fraction Music * Sixth interval (music)s: ** major sixth, a musical interval ** minor si ...

, 17 October 1941 – 1942 * Unknown, 1942 – 1 March 1943 * Antilles Air Task Force (later

), 1 March 1943 – 15 March 1944

Stations

Borinquen Field Ramey Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It was named after United States Army Air Forces Brigadier General Howard Knox Ramey. Following its closure, it was redeveloped into Rafael Hernandez Airp ...

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, 25 October 1941 * Henry Barracks, Puerto Rico, 20 March 1943 *

, 15 May 1943 – 15 March 1944

Units assigned

; Wing *

12 Pursuit Wing The 12th Air Division an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Eighth Air Force, based at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. It was inactivated on 31 July 1990. History The division was established as the ...

, 25 October 1941 – 6 March 1942 ; Groups *

9th Bombardment Group 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

: attached 28 January – c. 31 October 1942 * 36th Fighter Group: 25 October 1941 – 4 June 1943 *

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: attached 15 January 1942; assigned 6 April – 22 June 1942 ; Squadrons *

12th Bombardment Squadron 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...

: 1 November 1942 – 24 July 1943 (Under Operational Control) *

59th Bombardment Squadron The 59th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was first activated in Panama in 1941 during the expansion of the United States Army Air Corps before World War II. Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor the squadron ...

: 21 July 1942 – 19 March 1943 (Attached to Trinidad Detachment)Maurer, ''Combat Squadrons'', p. 232

References

Notes

; Explanatory notes ; Citations

Bibliography

* * {{USAAF 6th Air Force World War II Wings of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II Military units and formations disestablished in 1944