• Source: 11th Air Support Operations Squadron

      • The United States Air Force's 11th Air Support Operations Squadron was a combat support unit located at Fort Hood, Texas. The squadron provided tactical command and control of airpower assets to the Joint Forces Air Component Commander and Joint Forces Land Component Commander for combat operations.


      History




      = World War II

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      The squadron saw combat in the European Theater of Operations from D-Day to V-E Day. Its air support parties primarily served United States Third Army units, directing air support missions for the ground forces they served. It provided three teams that participated in airborne and amphibious landings in the initial 6 Jun 1944 D-Day invasion.


      = Post Cold War

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      The squadron was reactivated as the 11th Air Support Operations Squadron in 1994 to support the 2nd Armored Division which was later re-flagged as 4th Infantry Division. When 4th Infantry Division was restationed at Fort Carson, Colorado, the Squadron provided support to the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment, later renamed 3d Cavalry Regiment. It provided Air Liaison Officers, Joint Terminal Attack Controllers and Combat Mission Support Teams that administered airpower to ground forces until inactivating in 2018. After 24 years of service, the squadron was inactivated in a ceremony at Fort Hood, Texas on 21 June 2018. Personnel of the unit was absorbed into the 9th Air Support Operations Squadron, also based at Fort Hood.


      Lineage


      Constituted as the 11th Communications Squadron, Air Support on 9 September 1942
      Activated on 18 Sep 1942
      Redesignated 11th Air Support Communication Squadron on 11 January 1943
      Redesignated 11th Air Support Control Squadron on 20 August 1943
      Redesignated 11th Tactical Air Communications Squadron on 1 April 1944
      Inactivated on 12 October 1945
      Disbanded on 8 October 1948
      Reconstituted and redesignated 11th Air Support Operations Squadron on 24 June 1994
      Activated on 1 July 1994.
      Inactivated c. 21 June 2018


      = Assignments

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      III Air Support Command (later III Reconnaissance Command, III Tactical Air Command), 18 September 1942
      IX Fighter Command, 11 December 1943
      Ninth Air Force, c. 1 February 1944
      IX Air Support Command, 26 February 1944
      XIX Air Support Command (later XIX Tactical Air Command), 4 March 1944
      XII Tactical Air Command, 4 July – c. 12 October 1945
      3d Air Support Operations Group, 1 Jul 1994 – c. 21 June 2018


      = Stations

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      Birmingham Army Air Base, Alabama, 18 September 1942
      Key Field, Mississippi, 26 February 1943
      Lebanon Army Air Field, Tennessee, c. 30 May 1943
      Birmingham Army Air Base, Alabama, c. 22 September – 16 November 1943
      RAF Aldermaston (Sta 467), England, 10 December 1943
      Aldermaston Court (Sta 476), England, 14 January 1944
      Sunninghill Park (Sta 472), England, 12 February 1944
      Aldermaston Court (Sta 476) England, 1 March 1944
      Cricqueville Airfield (A-2), France, 9 Jul 1944
      Nehou, France, 12 July 1944
      Le Bingard, France, 31 July 1944
      Mesnil-Rousset, France, 4 August 1944
      Poilley, France, 8 August 1944
      Andouille, France, 16 August 1944
      Autainville, France, 31 August 1944
      Chalons-en-Champagne, France, 13 September 1944
      Etain Airfield (A-82), France, 24 September 1944
      Nancy, France, 14 October 1944
      Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 16 January 1945
      Idar-Oberstein, Germany, 28 March 1945
      Hersfeld, Germany, 9 April 1945
      Erlangen (R-96), Germany, 26 April – c. September 1945
      Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia, 12 Oct 1945
      Fort Hood, Texas, 1 Jul 1994 – c. 21 June 2018


      References




      = Notes

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      Explanatory notes

      Citations


      = Bibliography

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

      Anderson, Barry (1985). Army Air Forces Stations: A Guide to the Stations Where U.S. Army Air Forces Personnel Served in the United Kingdom During World War II (PDF). Maxwell AFB, AL: Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
      Johnson, David C. (1988). U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO) D-Day to V-E Day (PDF). Maxwell AFB, AL: Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2017.

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