23d Antisubmarine Squadron

23d Antisubmarine Squadron
Emblem of the 23d Antisubmarine Squadron
Active	1941-1949
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Anti-Submarine

The 23d Antisubmarine Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the XX Bomber Command, based at Clovis Army Airfield, New Mexico. It was inactivated on 6 February 1944.

History

Heraldry

On and over a light blue disc flecked with white clouds, bordure yellow, a caricatured figure wearing a brown flight suit, white helmet and goggles, and sitting on the fin of a large red aerial bomb, ringed white, and cutting a large yellow sky rope, by which the bomb is suspended, with a white knife held in right hand. (Approved 24 Feb 1943.)

Lineage

• Constituted as Constituted 76th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) on 20 Nov 1940

Activated on 15 Jan 1941

Redesignated 23d Antisubmarine Squadron (Heavy) on 3 Mar 1943

Disbanded on 6 Feb 1944.

Assignments

• 42d Bombardment Group, 15 Jan 1941

Air echelon attached to 45th Bombardment Group c. 21 May 1942

Air echelon attached to: AAF Antisubmarine Command, 13 Oct 1942

Air echelon attached to: 26th Antisubmarine Wing, 20 Nov 1942-9 Mar 1943

• 41st Bombardment Group, 12 Feb 1943
• AAF Antisubmarine Com¬mand, 3 Mar 1943
• 26th Antisubmarine Wing, 9 Mar 1943

Attached to Trinidad Detachment, Antilles Air Command, 5 Aug—Dec 1943

• I Bomber Command, 15 Oct 1943
• XX Bomber Command, 6 Feb 1944

Stations

• Salt Lake City, Utah, 15 Jan 1941
• Gowen Field, Idaho, 4 Jun 1941
• McChord Field, Wash, 20 Jan 1942

Operated from: Jacksonville Mun Aprt, Fla, C. 21 May-24 Jul 1942

Operated from: Opalocka NAS, Fla, 24 Jul-6 Aug 1942

Operated from: Drew Field, Fla, 6 Aug 1942-24 Feb 1943

Operated from: Batista Field, Cuba, 28 Feb-24 Apr 1943

• Drew Field, Fla, 8 Mar 1943

Operated from: Langley Field, Va, 9-23 Jul 1943

• Edinburgh Field, Trinidad, 5 Aug 1943

Ground echelon remained at Drew Field until 15 Oct 1943 then moved to Smoky Hill AAF1d, Kan, where it was disbanded on 6 Nov 1943

Detachment of air echelon operated from Zandery Field, Surinam, 15 Aug— Dec 1943

• Drew Field FL, 24 Dec 1943
• Clovis AAF1d, NM, 6 Feb 1944

Aircraft

• B-18 Bolo, 1941
• B-26, 1941-1942
• A-29, 1942-1943
• B-25, 1943.

Operational History

Antisubmarine patrols, Dec 1941—Dec 1943

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

• Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0892010924.