| Twenty-Second Air Force This numbered air force can trace its origins to World War II through an official consolidation of two organizations in 1979. Prior to and during the first part of America's participation in World War II, the organization ferried aircraft, but gradually its mission expanded to and remains airlifting personnel and cargo. - Lineage
- Established as Domestic Division, Air Corps Ferrying Command, and activated, on December 28, 1941 in Washington D.C., with assignment to Air Corps Ferrying Command. Redesignated: Domestic Wing, Air Corps Ferrying Command, on February 26, 1942; Domestic Wing, Army Air Forces Ferry Command, on March 9, 1942; Domestic Wing, Army Air Forces Ferrying Command, on March 31, 1942; Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, on June 20, 1942. Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in February 1943. Redesignated Continental Division, Air Transport Command, on February 28, 1946. Discontinued on October 31, 1946. Consolidated (1979) with the organization established as Continental Division, Military Air Transport Service, and organized at Kelly AFB, Texas, on July 1, 1948. Assigned to Military Air Transport Service (later, Military Airlift Command). Moved to Travis AFB, California, effective June 25, 1958. Redesignated Western Transport Air Force on July 1, 1958, and Twenty-Second Air Force on January 8, 1966. Relieved from assignment to Military Airlift Command and assigned to Air Mobility Command on June 1, 1992. Inactivated on July 1, 1993. Activated the same day at Dobbins ARB, Georgia, with a change in assignment to the Air Force Reserve (later, Air Force Reserve Command).
- The preceding web-site text was obtained from the Air Force Historical Agency. The text layout has been modified to conform to this webpage and for ease of reading.
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