Lineage

Constituted 22d Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor) on 22 Dec 1939. Activated on 1 Feb 1940. Redesignated: 22d Fighter Squadron on 15 May 1942; 22d Fighter Squadron, Single Engine, on 20 Aug 1943. Inactivated on 31 Mar 1946. Activated on 15 Oct 1946. Redesignated: 22d Fighter Squadron, Jet Propelled, on 27 Oct 1947; 22d Fighter Squadron, Jet, on 17 Jun 1948; 22d Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 20 Jan 1950; 22d Fighter-Day Squadron on 9 Aug 1954; 22d Tactical Fighter Squadron on 8 Jul 1958; 22d Fighter Squadron on 1 Oct 1991.

Assignments

36th Pursuit (later, 36th Fighter) Group, 1 Feb 1940?31 Mar 1946. 36th Fighter (later, 36th Fighter-Bomber; 36th Fighter-Day) Group, 15 Oct 1946 (attached to 36th Fighter-Day Wing, 1 Oct 1956?7 Dec 1957); 36th Fighter-Day (later, 36th Tactical Fighter, 36th Fighter) Wing, 8 Dec 1957; 36th Operations Group, 31 Mar 1992; 52d Operations Group, 1 Apr 1994?.

Stations

Langley Field, VA, 1 Feb 1940; Losey Field, Puerto Rico, 6 Jan 1941; Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, 13 Dec 1941 (detachment operated from Waller Field, Trinidad, 6 Dec 1941?Oct 1942); Waller Field, Trinidad, Oct 1942 (detachments operated from Aruba, 2 Sep 1942?Apr 1943; Curacao, 2 Sep 1942?Apr 1943; and Zandery Field, Surinam, 16 Sep 1942?16 Feb 1943); Morrison Field, FL, 27 May 1943; Mitchel Field, NY, 4 Jun 1943; Charleston, SC, 21 Jun 1943; Alamogordo AAFld, NM, 17 Sep 1943; Scribner AAFld, NE, 26 Nov 1943?Mar 1944; Kingsnorth, England, 5 Apr 1944; Brucheville, France, 3 Aug 1944; Le Mans, France, c. 5 Sep 1944; Athis, France, 23 Sep 1944; Juvincourt, France, 5 Oct 1944; Le Culot, Belgium, c. 27 Oct 1944; Aachen, Germany, 28 Mar 1945; Niedermennig, Germany, 8 Apr 1945; Kassel/Rothwesten, Germany, 21 Apr 1945?15 Feb 1946; Bolling Field, DC, 15 Feb?31 Mar 1946. Howard Field, CZ, 15 Oct 1946?c. 25 Jul 1948; Furstenfeldbruck AB, Germany, 13 Aug 1948; Bitburg AB, Germany, 28 Oct 1952; Spangdahlem AB, Germany, 1 Apr 1994?.

Aircraft

X/YP?37, 1940; P?36, 1940?1942; P?40, 1941, 1942?1943; P?39, 1941?1943; P?47, 1943?1945. P?47, 1946?1947; P(later F?)80, 1947?1950; F?84, 1950?1953; F?86, 1953?1956; F?100, 1956?1961; F?105, 1961?1966; F?4, 1966?1977; F?15, 1977?.

Operations

Antisubmarine operations, c. Mar 1942?15 May 1943; combat in ETO, 8 May 1944?8 May 1945. Maintained combat fighter proficiency in Europe, 1948?.

Honors

Service Streamers. None.

Campaign Streamers. World War II: Antisubmarine, American Theater; Air Offensive, Europe; Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe; Air Combat, EAME Theater.

Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None.

Decorations. Distinguished Unit Citations: France, 1 Sep 1944; Germany, 12 Apr 1945. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: May 1956?May 1958; 1 Jan?31 Dec 1968; 1 Dec 1973?30 Apr 1975; 1 Jul 1975?30 Jun 1977; 1 Jul 1977?30 Jun 1979; 1 Jul 1986?30 Jun 1988; 1 Jul 1988?30 Jun 1990; 1 Sep 1990?31 Jul 1991. Cited in the Orders of the Day, Belgian Army: 1 Oct?17 Dec 1944; 18 Dec 1944?15 Jan 1945. Belgian Fourragere.

Emblem

On a Grayed Medium Blue disc, a caricatured, pugnacious, Black, Brown, and Yellow bumblebee with White wings, in flight toward dexter, wearing Brown boxing gloves, and leaving White speed lines toward rear. Approved on 27 Jun 1945 (44687 A.C.).