Tenth Air Force
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| 10th Air Force | |
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 Tenth Air Force Patch |
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| Active | 12 February 1942 |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Air Force |
| Garrison/HQ | Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth |
Tenth Air Force is a Numbered Air Force in Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC). It is an intermediate echelon responsible primarily for all Air Combat Command (ACC) and Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) gained units in the United States.
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[edit] World War II
The Tenth Air Force was constituted on 4 February 1942 and activated on 12 February. The Tenth moved to India over a three month period from March to May 1942. It served in India, Burma, and China until March 1943 when Fourteenth Air Force was activated in China. Then the Tenth operated in India and Burma until it moved to China late in July 1945..
[edit] Campaigns
Burma, 1942; India-Burma; China Defensive; Central Burma; China Offensive.[1]
[edit] Commanders
- Colonel Harry A Halverson, 17 February 1942;
- Major-General Lewis H Brereton, 5 March 1942;
- Brigadier-General Earl L Naiden, 26 June 1942;
- Major-General Clayton Bissell, 18 August 1942;
- Major-General Howard C Davidson, in August 1943;
- Major-General Albert F Hegenberger, 1 August 1945 - ?[1]
[edit] Headquarters
- Patterson Field, Ohio, 12 Feb-8 Mar 1942;
- New Delhi, India, 16 May 1942;
- Myitkyina, Burma, 2 Nov 1944;
- Piardoba, India, 15 May 1945;
- Kunming, China, 1 Aug 1945;
- Liuchow, China, 9 Aug-15 Dec 1945.[1]
[edit] Units
- 1st Air Commando Group
- 1st Combat Cargo Group
- 1st Provisional Liaison Group
- 2nd Air Commando Group
- 3rd Air Depot Group
- 3rd Combat Cargo Group
- 4th Combat Cargo Group
- 7th Bombardment Group (Heavy)
- 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
- 12th Bombardment Group (Medium)
- 23rd Fighter Group
- 33rd Fighter Group
- 47th A D Group
- 51st Fighter Group
- 54th Service Group
- 80th Fighter Group
- 87th Anti Aircraft Artillery Group
- 100th Service Group
- 311th Fighter Group
- 341st Bombardment Group (Medium)[2]
- 11th Bombardment Squadron (Medium)
- 22nd Bombardment Squadron (Medium)
- 490th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) "Burma Bridge Busters"
- 491st Bombardment Squadron (Medium)
- 442nd Troop Carrier Group
- 443rd Troop Carrier Group
- Other Units not assigend to a group
[edit] Post World War II
After World War II, Tenth Air Force was assigned to the reestablished Air Defense Command, later to Continental Air Command, and back to Air Defense Command. From September 1960 to January 1966 the organization was inactive. It was deactivated again in September 1969. In October 1976 Tenth Air Force reactivated as a part of the Air Force Reserves (AFRES).
[edit] References
- Maurer, Maurer "Air Force Combat Units of World War II", Pub USAF, Reprint 1986 (first pub 1961)
- Second World War 10th Air Force Unit Listing
[edit] Notes
- ↑ a b c Air Force Combat Units of World War II - Part 8 See References Maurer
- ↑ a Transferred to the Fourteenth Air Force
- ↑ The 341st Bomb Group usually functioned as if it were two groups and for a time as three. Soon after its activation in September 1942, 341st Bomb Group Headquarters and three of its sauadrons the 22nd, 490th and 491st, and were stationed and operating in India under direction of the Tenth Air Force, while the 11th squadron was stationed and operating in China under direction of the "China Air Task Force", which was later reorganized and reinforced to become the Fourteenth Air Force. Fourteen months later the Group Headquarters along with 22nd and the 491st squadrons joined the 11th squadron under the command of the Fourteenth Air Force. However most of the 490th "Burma Bridge Busters" remained under the command of Major-General Howard Davidson's Tenth Air Force. Still later the 11th Squadron and a detachment of the 491st operated for a time under the East China Task Force.
- ↑ Life and Times of the 341st Bomb Group: Forward
