41st Electronic Combat Squadron

41st Electronic Combat Squadron
41st Electronic Combat Squadron EC-130H Compass Call 73-1581
Active	1917–1946; 1954-1959; 1965-1969; 1980-present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Electronic Warfare
Nickname(s)	Scorpions
Engagements	World War I World War II Vietnam Saudi Arabia
Insignia
41st Electronic Combat Squadron emblem (approved 3 January 1933)^[1]^{[note 1]}

The 41st Electronic Combat Squadron is a United States Air Force unit. Its current assignment is with the 55th Electronic Combat Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona as a geographically separated unit from its parent wing, the 55th Wing at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.

The squadron is one of the oldest in the United States Air Force, its origins dating to 14 June 1917, when it was organized at Kelly Field, Texas. It served overseas in France as part of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. The squadron also saw combat during World War II, and became part of Tactical Air Command (TAC) during the Cold War.

History

World War I

The squadron was an observation unit with French XVII and XXXII, and American III and IV Army Corps, 16 August – 11 November 1918.^[1]

World War II

It provided 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.^[1]

Cold War

The squadron was reactivated at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, where it was assigned to the 432d Tactical Reconnaissance Group and equipped with Douglas RB-26 Invader aircraft.^[1] In 1956 as deliveries of the Douglas RB-66B Destroyer to the Air Force increased, the squadron was equipped with the newer jet aircraft.^[2]

Vietnam War

The unit engaged in combat in Southeast Asia, c. November 1965 – 31 October 1969.^[1]

Current era

Command, control, and communications countermeasures, 1982–. Electronic countermeasures in Southwest Asia, 27 August 1990 – 17 April 1991.^[1]

Lineage

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

Redesignated 9th Balloon Company on 25 July 1918

Redesignated 9th Airship Company on 30 August 1921

Redesignated 9th Airship Squadron on 26 October 1933

Redesignated 1st Observation Squadron on 1 June 1937

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

Redesignated 1st Observation Squadron on 4 July 1942

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

Redesignated 41st Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 25 November 1944

Redesignated 41st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron on 24 January 1946

Inactivated on 17 June 1946

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

Activated on 18 March 1954

Inactivated on 18 May 1959

Redesignated 41st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Photo-Jet and activated on 30 June 1965 (not organized)

Organized on 1 October 1965

Redesignated 41st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron on 8 October 1966

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

Inactivated on 31 October 1969

Redesignated 41st Electronic Combat Squadron on 17 June 1980

Activated on 1 July 1980^[1]

Assignments

Unknown, 13 November 1917
Balloon Wing, IV Army Corps, 5 August 1918
Balloon Wing, III Army Corps, 21 September 1918
Balloon Group, III Army Corps, 8 October 1918
2d Balloon Group, First Army (United States), c. 20 November 1918 – December 1918
Unknown, December 1918 – May 1919
Army Balloon School, Fort Omaha, Nebraska, May 1919
Fourth Corps Area, October 1921
1st Airship Group (later 21st Airship Group), 19 July 1922
Sixth Corps Area, 1 June 1937
Seventh Corps Area (attached to Cavalry School), 15 June 1937
Cavalry School, c. 1939
Second United States Army, 3 October 1940

Two flights attached to Cavalry School to c. April 1941

Third flight remained assigned to Cavalry School throughout period

II Air Support Command, 1 September 1941

Flight attached to Cavalry School to c. December 1941

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

Attached to 6th Bombardment Group, 10 April 1942 – c. June 1942

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

III Tactical Air Command, 1 October 1944
III Tactical Air Division, 4 December 1944
7th Fighter Wing, 18 April 1945
AAF, Pacific Ocean Area (attached to XXI Bomber Command), 13 June 1945
United States Army Forces, Middle Pacific (attached to Twentieth Air Force), 16 July 1945
315th Bombardment Wing, 18 September 1945
VII Fighter Command (later 46th Fighter Wing), 4 January 1946 – 17 June 1946
432d Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 18 March 1954
363d Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, 8 February 1958 – 18 May 1959
Tactical Air Command, 20 June 1965 (not organized
363d Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, 1 October 1965
Thirteenth Air Force, 20 October 1965
460th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, 18 February 1966
432d Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, 18 September 1966
355th Tactical Fighter Wing, 15 August 1967 – 31 October 1969
552d Airborne Warning and Control Wing (later 552d Airborne Warning and Control Division), 1 July 1980
28th Air Division, 1 April 1985

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

355th Operations Group, 1 May 1992^[1]
55th Electronic Combat Group, 2006 – Present

Stations

Fort Omaha, Nebraska, 13 November 1917
Camp Morrison, Virginia, 9 February 1918 – 29 June 1918
Camp de Meucon, Morbihan, France, 17 July 1918
Broussey-Raulecourt, France, 14 August 1918
Xivray-et-Marvoisin, France, 12 September 1918
St Benoit-en-Woevre, France, 14 September 1918
Lamarche-en-Woevre, France, 16 September 1918
Thierville, France, 22 September 1918
Cumières, France, 9 October 1918
Consenvoye, France, 7 November 1918
Fromeréville-les-Vallons, France, 12 November 1918
Damvillers, France, 14 November 1918
Ville-sur-Cousances, France, 26 November 1918
Colombey-les-Belles, France, 4 February 1919
Bordeaux, France, 18 February 1919 – 20 April 1919
Camp Stuart, Virginia, 4 May 1919
Camp Lee, Virginia, 9 May 1919
Fort Omaha, Nebraska, 18 May 1919
Scott Field, Illinois, 28 October 1921

Fort Omaha, Kansas, 15 June 1937 – 27 December 1941
Rio Hato, Panama, 14 January 1942
Howard Field, Panama Canal Zone, 19 January 1942
David, Panama, 17 April 1942
Rio Hato, Panama, 10 May 1942
Howard Field, Panama Canal Zone, 20 June 1942 – 7 May 1944
Pounds Field, Texas, 24 May 1944
Muskogee Army Air Field, Oklahoma, 7 December 1944 – 4 April 1945
Kualoa Field, Hawaii, 18 April 1945 – 31 May 1945
Agana Airfield, Guam, Mariana Islands 13 June 1945

Detachment at: North Field (Iwo Jima), Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands (Japan), 9 August 1945 – c. 15 September 1945

East Field (Saipan), Mariana Islands, 4 January 1946
Agana Airfield, Guam, Mariana Islands, 15 April 1946 – 17 June 1946
Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, 18 March 1954 – 18 May 1959
Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, 1 October 1965
Takhli RTAFB, Thailand, 20 October 1965 – 31 October 1969
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, 1 July 1980 – present

Deployed at Bateen Air Base, Saudi Arabia, 27 August 1990 – 17 April 1991^[1]

Aircraft

Type R observation balloon, 1918–1919,
1919-1921; probably included RN-1 (Zodiac), type SST (Mullion), type AA (pony blimp), A-4, D-4, OA-1, AC-1, TA-1, TA-5, TC-1, TC-3, 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, 1942–1944,
P-39, 1943–1944, included Kellett YG-1B, c. 1938-1940, YO-51 Dragonfly, 1940–1941, Bellanca YO-50, and apparently O-59 Grasshopper, 1941, O-49, 1941–1943, and CG-4, 1943; A-20, 1944, primarily F-5 Lightning, 1944-1946.
Douglas RB-26 Invader, 1954–1956;
Douglas RB-66 Destroyer, 1956-1959.
Douglas RB-66 Destroyer, 1965; EB-66, 1965-1969.
EC-130H Compass Call, 1982- ^[1]

References

Notes

Explanatory notes

↑ The original triangular emblem was placed on a light blue disc on 28 October 1981 and slightly modified in 1994. AFHRA Factsheet.

Footnotes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Factsheet 41 Electronic Combat Squadron". Air Force Historical Research Agency. 2011-03-22. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
↑ Knaack, p. 419

Bibliography

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

Knaack, Marcelle Size (1988). Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems. Vol. 2, Post-World War II Bombers 1945-1973. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-59-5.
Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.

External links

http://www.wolfsshipyard.mystarship.com/Misc/Airships/Airships.htm

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