This article is about I Bomber Command (formerly AAF Antisubmarine Command). For I Bomber Command (later XX Bomber Command), see I Bomber Command.
Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command (later I Bomber Command)
B-24 Liberator of AAF Antisubmarine Command[a]
Active
1942–1946
Disbanded
8 October 1948
Country
United States
Branch
Army Air Forces
Type
Command
Role
Antisubmarine warfare, then bomber training
Part of
First Air Force
Engagements
American Theater of World War II European Theater
Insignia
Shoulder Sleeve Insigne[b][1]
Military unit
The Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command was formed in the fall of 1942 to establish a single command to control antisubmarine warfare (ASW) activities of the Army Air Forces (AAF). It was formed from the resources of I Bomber Command, which had been carrying out the antisubmarine mission in the Atlantic and Caribbean since the Attack on Pearl Harbor due to the lack of long range Naval aviation in that area.
The command's units conducted ASW along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, in the Caribbean Sea and in Europe, where it used bases in England and French Morocco. Its operations were marked by disagreements between the AAF and the Navy concerning the conduct of air ASW. In the fall of 1943, the ASW mission was transferred to the Navy and the command became a bomber training unit until it was inactivated in 1946.
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