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The 41st Electronic Combat Squadron is a United States Air Force

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

unit. Its current assignment is with the 355th Operations Group

355th Fighter Wing

The 355th Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command's Twelfth Air Force. It is stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, where in operates the A-10 Thunderbolt II...

, being stationed at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona

Arizona

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History

Observation unit with French XVII and XXXII, and American III and IV Army Corps, August 16 – November 11, 1918. Air defense for Panama Canal, January 1942 – May 1944, with occasional antisubmarine patrols over the Caribbean and Pacific, especially during May and June 1942; deployed to Western Pacific in June 1945, but never entered combat. Combat in Southeast Asia, c. November 1965 – October 31, 1969. Command, control, and communications countermeasures, 1982–. Electronic countermeasures in Southwest Asia, August 27, 1990 – April 17, 1991.

Lineage

Organized as Company A, 4th Balloon Squadron on November 13, 1917

Redesignated: 9th Balloon Company on July 25, 1918

Redesignated: 9th Airship Company on August 30, 1921

Redesignated: 9th Airship Squadron on October 26, 1933

Redesignated: 1st Observation Squadron on June 1, 1937

Redesignated: 1st Observation Squadron (Medium) on January 13, 1942

Redesignated: 1st Observation Squadron on July 4, 1942

Redesignated: 1st Reconnaissance Squadron (Special) on June 25, 1943

Redesignated: 41st Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on November 25, 1944

Redesignated: 41st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron on January 24, 1946

Inactivated on June 17, 1946

Redesignated 41st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Night-Photographic, on January 14, 1954

Activated on March 18, 1954

Inactivated on May 18, 1959

Redesignated 41st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Photo-Jet, and activated, on June 30, 1965

Organized on October 1, 1965

Redesignated: 41st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron on October 8, 1966

Redesignated: 41st Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron on March 15, 1967

Inactivated on October 31, 1969

Redesignated 41st Electronic Combat Squadron on June 17, 1980

Activated on July 1, 1980

Assignments

Unkn, November 13, 1917 – August 5, 1918
Balloon Wing, IV Army Corps
IV Corps (United States)
The IV Corps replaced the VI Corps in the Fifth United States Army's order of battle in Italy after Allied forces liberated Rome in the summer of 1944 when VI Corps was withdrawn to take part in Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of southern France. Initially the Corps had two divisions, U.S...

, August 5, 1918
Balloon Wing, III Army Corps, September 21, 1918
Balloon Group, III Army Corps, October 8, 1918
2d Balloon Group, First Army (United States), c. November 20 – December 1918
unkn, December 1918 – May 1919
Army Balloon School, Fort Omaha
Fort Omaha
Fort Omaha, originally known as Sherman Barracks and then Omaha Barracks, is an Indian War-era United States Army supply installation. Located at 5730 North 30th Street, with the entrance at North 30th and Fort Streets in modern-day North Omaha, Nebraska, the facility is primarily occupied by ...

, NE, May 1919
VI Corps (United States) Area, October 1921
1st (later, 21st) Airship Group, July 19, 1922
Sixth Corps Area, June 1, 1937
VII Corps (United States) Area (attached to Cavalry School), June 15, 1937
Cavalry School, c. 1939
Second United States Army, October 3, 1940

Two flights attached to Cavalry School to c. April 1941

Third flight remained assigned to Cavalry School throughout period

II Air Support Command
II Air Support Command
The II Air Support Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to Second Air Force, based at Biggs Field, Texas...

, September 1, 1941

Flight attached to Cavalry School to c. December 1941

72d Observation (later, 72d Reconnaissance) Group, September 26, 1941

Attached to 6th Bombardment Group

6th Air Mobility Wing

The United States Air Force's 6th Air Mobility Wing is the host wing for MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. It is part of Air Mobility Command's Eighteenth Air Force....

, April 10 – c. June 1942

Sixth Air Force, November 1, 1943
II Tactical Air Division, May 24, 1944
III Tactical Air Division, June 24, 1944

III Tactical Air Command
III Tactical Air Command
The III Tactical Air Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Third Air Force stationed at Barksdale Field, Louisiana...

, October 1, 1944
III Tactical Air Division, December 4, 1944
7th Fighter Wing, April 18, 1945
AAF, Pacific Ocean Area (attached to XXI Bomber Command
XXI Bomber Command
The XXI Bomber Command was a unit of the Twentieth Air Force in Guam for strategic bombing during World War II.- Lineage:* Constituted as XXI Bomber Command on 1 Mar 1944, and activated the same day.-Assignments:...

), June 13, 1945
United States Army Forces, Middle Pacific (attached to Twentieth Air Force
Twentieth Air Force
The Twentieth Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Global Strike Command . It is headquartered at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.20 AF's primary mission is Intercontinental Ballistic Missile operations...

), July 16, 1945
315th Bombardment Wing
315th Air Division
The 315th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Pacific Air Forces, based at Tachikawa Air Base, Japan. It was inactivated in April 1969.-History:...

, September 18, 1945
VII Fighter Command (later, 46th Fighter Wing), January 4 – June 17, 1946
432d Tactical Reconnaissance Group, March 18, 1954
363d Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, February 8, 1958 – May 18, 1959
Tactical Air Command
Tactical Air Command
Tactical Air Command is an inactive United States Air Force organization. It was a Major Command of the United States Air Force, established on 21 March 1946 being headquartered at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia...

, June 30, 1965
363d Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, October 1, 1965
Thirteenth Air Force
Thirteenth Air Force
The Thirteenth Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces . It is headquartered at Hickam Air Force Base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. 13 AF has never been stationed in the continental United States...

, October 20, 1965
460th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing
460th Space Wing
The 460th Space Wing is located at Buckley Air Force Base, east of Aurora, Colorado. Since the 460th was redesignated on 1 October 2004, the wing has delivered global infrared surveillance, provided worldwide missile warning and tracking for homeland defense purposes, and provided expeditionary...

, February 18, 1966
432d Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, September 18, 1966
355th Tactical Fighter Wing
355th Fighter Wing
The 355th Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command's Twelfth Air Force. It is stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, where in operates the A-10 Thunderbolt II...

, August 15, 1967 – October 31, 1969
552d Airborne Warning and Control Wing (later, 552d Airborne Warning and Control Division)
552d Air Control Wing
The 552d Air Control Wing is an operational wing of the United States Air Force based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The wing flies the E-3 Sentry aircraft.-History:...

, July 1, 1980
28th Air Division, April 1, 1985

Attached to Air Division Provisional, 15, December 5, 1990 – April 17, 1991

355th Operations Group
355th Fighter Wing
The 355th Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command's Twelfth Air Force. It is stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, where in operates the A-10 Thunderbolt II...

, May 1, 1992 – present

Stations

Fort Omaha
Fort Omaha
Fort Omaha, originally known as Sherman Barracks and then Omaha Barracks, is an Indian War-era United States Army supply installation. Located at 5730 North 30th Street, with the entrance at North 30th and Fort Streets in modern-day North Omaha, Nebraska, the facility is primarily occupied by ...

, Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....

,, November 13, 1917
Camp Morrison, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

, February 9 – June 29, 1918
Camp de Meucon, Morbihan
Morbihan
Morbihan is a department in Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan , the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastline.-History:...

, France, July 17, 1918
Broussey-Raulecourt
Broussey-Raulecourt
Broussey-Raulecourt is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.-Geography:The Broussey-en-Woëvre village lies on the left bank of the Rupt de Mad, which flows northwestward through the commune. Raulecourt, the other village in the commune, is located in its eastern...

, France, August 14, 1918
Xivray-et-Marvoisin
Xivray-et-Marvoisin
Xivray-et-Marvoisin is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.-Geography:The Rupt de Mad forms part of the commune's southern border, then flows northeastward through its eastern part.-See also:...

, France, September 12, 1918
St Benoit-en-Woevre, France, September 14, 1918
Lamarche-en-Woevre, France, September 16, 1918
Thierville
Thierville
Thierville is a commune in the Eure department in Haute-Normandie in northern France.Thierville is remarkable as the only village in all of France with no men lost from World War I, nor any memorials constructed in the subsequent period. Amazingly, Thierville also suffered no losses in the...

, France, September 22, 1918
Cumières
Cumières
Cumières is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France....

, France, October 9, 1918
Consenvoye
Consenvoye
Consenvoye is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France....

, France, November 7, 1918
Fromeréville-les-Vallons
Fromeréville-les-Vallons
Fromeréville-les-Vallons is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.-See also:*Communes of the Meuse department...

, France, November 12, 1918
Damvillers
Damvillers
Damvillers is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France....

, France, November 14, 1918
Ville-sur-Cousances
Ville-sur-Cousances
Ville-sur-Cousances is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.-See also:*Communes of the Meuse department...

, France, November 26, 1918
Colombey-les-Belles
Colombey-les-Belles
Colombey-les-Belles is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.-Heraldry:-See also:*Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department...

, France, February 4, 1919
Bordeaux
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

, France, February 18 – April 20, 1919
Camp Stuart, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

, May 4, 1919
Camp Lee, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

, May 8, 1919
Fort Omaha
Fort Omaha
Fort Omaha, originally known as Sherman Barracks and then Omaha Barracks, is an Indian War-era United States Army supply installation. Located at 5730 North 30th Street, with the entrance at North 30th and Fort Streets in modern-day North Omaha, Nebraska, the facility is primarily occupied by ...

, Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....

, May 18, 1919
Scott Field, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

, October 28, 1921

Fort Omaha
Fort Omaha
Fort Omaha, originally known as Sherman Barracks and then Omaha Barracks, is an Indian War-era United States Army supply installation. Located at 5730 North 30th Street, with the entrance at North 30th and Fort Streets in modern-day North Omaha, Nebraska, the facility is primarily occupied by ...

, Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

, June 15, 1937 – December 27, 1941
Rio Hato
Río Hato
Río Hato is a town in the Coclé province of Panama.- Sources :* – World-Gazetteer.com...

, Panama
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

, January 14, 1942
Howard Field, Canal Zone
Panama Canal Zone
The Panama Canal Zone was a unorganized U.S. territory located within the Republic of Panama, consisting of the Panama Canal and an area generally extending 5 miles on each side of the centerline, but excluding Panama City and Colón, which otherwise would have been partly within the limits of...

, January 19, 1942
David, Panama
David, Panama
David is a city located in the west of Panama. It is the capital of the province of Chiriquí and has an estimated population of 144,858 inhabitants as confirmed in 2010. It is a relatively affluent city with most families and houses having basic living requirements, such as concrete houses, clean...

, April 17, 1942
Rio Hato
Río Hato
Río Hato is a town in the Coclé province of Panama.- Sources :* – World-Gazetteer.com...

, Panama
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

, May 10, 1942
Howard Field, Canal Zone
Panama Canal Zone
The Panama Canal Zone was a unorganized U.S. territory located within the Republic of Panama, consisting of the Panama Canal and an area generally extending 5 miles on each side of the centerline, but excluding Panama City and Colón, which otherwise would have been partly within the limits of...

, June 20, 1942 – May 7, 1944
Pounds Field, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, May 24, 1944
Muskogee Army Airfield, Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

, December 7, 1944 – April 4, 1945
Kualoa Field, Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

(Territory), April 18 – May 31, 1945
Agana Airfield
Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport
Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport , also known as Guam International Airport, is an airport located in Tamuning and Barrigada, three miles east of the capital city of Hagåtña in the U.S. territory of Guam. It is named for Antonio Borja Won Pat, the first delegate from Guam to the United...

, Guam
Guam
Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...

, Mariana Islands
Mariana Islands
The Mariana Islands are an arc-shaped archipelago made up by the summits of 15 volcanic mountains in the north-western Pacific Ocean between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east...

June 13, 1945

Detachment at: North Field

North Field (Iwo Jima)

North Field or Iwo Jima Air Base is a World War II airfield on Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands, located in the Central Pacific. The Bonin Islands are part of Japan...

, Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima, officially , is an island of the Japanese Volcano Islands chain, which lie south of the Ogasawara Islands and together with them form the Ogasawara Archipelago. The island is located south of mainland Tokyo and administered as part of Ogasawara, one of eight villages of Tokyo...

, Bonin Islands (Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

), August 9 – c. September 15, 1945

East Field
East Field (Saipan)
East Field is a former World War II airfield on Saipan in the Mariana Islands.-History:Saipan had been occupied by the Japanese since World War I, and by mid-1944, the Americans had advanced inside the Japanese ring of defense in the Pacific Theater...

, Saipan
Saipan
Saipan is the largest island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , a chain of 15 tropical islands belonging to the Marianas archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean with a total area of . The 2000 census population was 62,392...

, Mariana Islands
Mariana Islands
The Mariana Islands are an arc-shaped archipelago made up by the summits of 15 volcanic mountains in the north-western Pacific Ocean between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east...

, January 4, 1946
Agana Airfield
Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport
Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport , also known as Guam International Airport, is an airport located in Tamuning and Barrigada, three miles east of the capital city of Hagåtña in the U.S. territory of Guam. It is named for Antonio Borja Won Pat, the first delegate from Guam to the United...

, Guam
Guam
Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...

, Mariana Islands
Mariana Islands
The Mariana Islands are an arc-shaped archipelago made up by the summits of 15 volcanic mountains in the north-western Pacific Ocean between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east...

, April 15 – June 17, 1946
Shaw AFB, South Carolina
South Carolina
South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...

, March 18, 1954 – May 18, 1959; October 1, 1965
Takhli RTAFB, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

, October 20, 1965 – October 31, 1969
Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

, July 1, 1980 – present

Deployed at Bateen AB, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

, August 27, 1990 – April 17, 1991

Aircraft

Type R observation balloon, 1918–1919,
1919-1921; probably included RN-1 (Zodiac), type SST (Mullion)
SS class blimp
SS class blimps were simple, cheap and easily assembled small non-rigid airships that were developed as a matter of some urgency to counter the German U-boat threat to British shipping during World War I...

, type AA (pony blimp), A-4
Curtiss Falcon
The Curtiss Falcon is a family of military biplane aircraft built by the United States aircraft manufacturer Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company during the 1920s. Most saw service as part of the United States Army Air Corps as observation aircraft with the designations O-1 and O-11, or as the...

, D-4, OA-1, AC-1, TA-1, TA-5, TC-1
Tc-1
TC-1 might refer to:* Minolta TC-1, a camera* TC-1, a satellite...

, TC-3
Tc-3
The TC-3 and the TC-7 were the two US Army Corps non-rigid blimps used for parasite fighter trials conducted in 1923-24. A single Sperry Messenger biplane was equipped with a skyhook to engage the temporary trapeze mounted to the control carriage of the blimp itself. The first successful docking...

, TC-5, TC-6, TC-10, TC-11, TC-14, TE-1, type TE-3, and TF-1 nonrigid airships, RS-9 semirigid airship, type R (later, C-3) and C-6 observation balloons, and A-6, A-7, and A-8 spherical balloons during period 1922-1937.
O-19, Douglas O-25, and apparently O-46, during period 1937-1939.
O-47, 1938–1944, L-4 and B-18
B-18 Bolo
The Douglas B-18 Bolo was a United States Army Air Corps and Royal Canadian Air Force bomber of the late 1930s and early 1940s. The Bolo was built by Douglas Aircraft Company and based on its DC-2 and was developed to replace the Martin B-10....

, 1942–1944,
P-39, 1943–1944, included Kellett YG-1B, c. 1938-1940, YO-51 Dragonfly, 1940–1941, Bellanca YO-50
Bellanca YO-50
-See also:...

, and apparently O-59 Grasshopper, 1941, O-49, 1941–1943, and CG-4, 1943; A-20, 1944, primarily F-5 Lightning, 1944-1946.
RB-26, 1954–1956;
RB-66, 1956-1959.
RB-66, 1965; EB-66, 1965-1969.
EC-130H Compass Call
EC-130H Compass Call
-See also:- External links :* * * * * *...

, 1982-.

External links

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