The XXII Tactical Air Command is an inactive

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Aerial warfare, air military branch, service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part ...

unit. Its last assignment was with

Twelfth Air Force The Twelfth Air Force (12 AF; Air Forces Southern, (AFSOUTH)) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The command is the air component to ...

, at

Pomigliano Airfield Pomigliano Airfield (40°55'40"N / 14°23'20"E) was a military airfield and base established in 1938–39 in Pomigliano d'Arco, southern Italy near Naples. It was attacked on several occasions by the United States Army Air Force. The airfield was ...

, Italy, where it was inactivated on 4 October 1945. The command was formed in the southeast United States in early 1942. It moved to the United Kingdom in September 1942 and to North Africa during October–November 1942. Served in combat in the Mediterranean theater until the end of the war. Inactivated in Italy

Lineage

* Constituted as the 12th Interceptor Command on 26 February 1942 : Activated on 5 March 1942 : Redesignated 12th Fighter Command 15 May 1942 : Redesignated XII Fighter Command c. 24 September 1942 : Redesignated XXII Tactical Air Command in November 1944 : Inactivated on 4 October 1945 : Disbanded on 8 October 1948

Assignments

Third Air Force The Third Air Force (Air Forces Europe) (3 AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA). Its headquarters is Ramstein Air Base, Germany. It is responsible for all U.S. air forces in ...

, 5 March 1942 *

, 12 September 1942 – 4 October 1945 (attached to Eighth Air Force, 12 September-26 October 1942)

Stations

* Drew Field, Florida, 5 March-27 August 1942 *

RAF Wattisham Royal Air Force Station Wattisham or more simply RAF Wattisham is a former Royal Air Force station located in East Anglia just outside the village of Wattisham, south of Stowmarket in Suffolk, England. During the Cold War it was a major front ...

, England, 12 September 1942 *

RAF Bushey Hall Royal Air Force Bushey Hall or more simply RAF Bushey Hall is a former Second World War non-flying Royal Air Force station located south west of St Albans, Hertfordshire and north east of Uxbridge, London, England. History It was establish ...

, England, 17 September-26 October 1942 *

Oran Tafaraoui Airport Oran Tafaraoui Airport is a joint civil/military airport in Oran Province, Algeria . History During World War II, it was a primary mission objective of the United States Army 34th Infantry Division during the Allied Operation Torch landings on 8 ...

, Algeria, 8 November 1942 *

La Senia Airfield Ahmed Ben Bella Airport ( ar, مطار أحمد بن بلة), formally Es-Sénia Airport is an airport located 4.7 nm (8.7 km) south of Oran (near Es Sénia), in Algeria. History During World War II, La Sénia Airport was first used by ...

, Algeria, 12 November 1942 * Tebessa Airfield, Algeria, December 1942 * La Senia Airfield, Algeria, 12 January 1943 * Algiers, Algeria, 20 March 1943 *

Caserta Caserta () is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial, and industrial '' comune'' and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Ca ...

, Italy, 14 July 1944 *

Florence Airfield Florence Airport, Peretola , it, Aeroporto di Firenze-Peretola and formally Amerigo Vespucci Airport, is the international airport of Florence, the capital of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is the second-busiest Tuscan airport in terms of p ...

, Italy, 15 September 1944 *

, Italy, August-4 October 1945

Components

; Wings * 1st Air Defense Wing (later 62d Fighter Wing): 30 January 1943 – 12 September 1945 * 2d Air Defense Wing (later 63d Fighter Wing): 27 January 1943 – 14 June 1945 * 3rd Air Defense Wing: 22 February – 9 March 1943 * 87th Fighter Wing: 11 January 1944 – 1 April 1945. ; Groups *

1st Fighter Group 001, O01, or OO1 may refer to: *1 (number), a number, a numeral *001, fictional British agent, see 00 Agent *001, former emergency telephone number for the Norwegian fire brigade (until 1986) *AM-RB 001, the code-name for the Aston Martin Valkyr ...

: 14 September – 24 December 1942 *

14th Fighter Group 014 may refer to: * Argus As 014 * 014 Construction Unit * Divi Divi Air Flight 014 * Pirna 014 The Pirna 014 was an axial turbojet designed in East Germany (or the GDR) in the mid- to late 1950s by former Junkers engineers, who were repatriat ...

: 14 September – 11 December 1942 *

31st Fighter Group 31 (thirty-one) is the natural number following 30 and preceding 32. It is a prime number. In mathematics 31 is the 11th prime number. It is a superprime and a self prime (after 3, 5, and 7), as no integer added up to its base 10 digits ...

: 27 September – November 1942 *

33d Fighter Group ''033'' or ''Zero Three Three'' is a 2010 Bengali film directed by Birsa Dasgupta in a directorial debut and produced by Moxie Entertainments. It stars Rudranil Ghosh and Parambrato Chattopadhyay. 033 is the STD code for Kolkata city, and the ...

: 6 December 1942 – 13 January 1943 *

47th Bombardment Group 47th may refer to: Chicago Transit Authority stations * 47th station (CTA Green Line), on the Green Line * 47th station (CTA Red Line) 47th is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Red Line. The station is loca ...

: 15 September 1944 – 7 June 1945 *

52d Fighter Group 5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on ...

: 14 September 1942 – 18 February 1943 (attached to Tunis Fighter Sector after c. 19 January 1943) * 79th Fighter Group: assigned 20 September 1944 – 1 October 1944 (attached to 64th Fighter Wing to 30 September 1944); attached 12 May – 7 June 1945 *

86th Fighter Group Area codes 084 and 086 are Nigerian telephone area codes serving the cities of Port Harcourt and Ahoada in Rivers State. They fall under the Southeast Zone in the National Numbering Plan (NNP) restructured in 2003. When in Port Harcourt or Ahoa ...

: 15 September 1944 – 20 February 1945 *

332d Fighter Group 33 may refer to: *33 (number) *33 BC * AD 33 * 1933 * 2033 Music * ''33'' (Luis Miguel album) (2003) * ''33'' (Southpacific album) (1998) * ''33'' (Wanessa album) (2016) *"33 'GOD'", a 2016 song by Bon Iver * "Thirty-Three" (song), a 1995 song by ...

: 15 September 1944 – 20 February 1945 ; Squadrons * 1st Emergency Rescue Squadron, 12 March − 1 October 1944 (attached to Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force after 14 September 1944) *

414th Night Fighter Squadron 414th may refer to: * 414th Bombardment Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit *414th Combat Training Squadron, United States Air Force unit * 414th Fighter Group (414th FG), active United States Air Force unit *414th Infantry Regiment (Un ...

: 1 April – 7 June 1945 * 417th Night Fighter Squadron: 1 April – 17 August 1945Maurer, ''Combat Squadrons'', pp. 509-510

References

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Bibliography

* * {{USAAF 12th Air Force World War II 22 Military units and formations disestablished in 1948