Lineage and Honors History
of the
22d INTELLIGENCE SQUADRON (AIA)
Lineage. Organized as 17th Aero Squadron on 16 Jun 1917. Redesignated 22d Aero Squadron on 20 Jun 1917. Demobilized on 16 Jun 1919. Reconstituted and consolidated (17 Apr 1937) with 135th Aero Squadron which was organized on 1 Oct 1917 and redesignated 22d Squadron on 14 Mar 1921. Redesignated: 22d Observation Squadron on 25 Jan 1923; 22d Observation Squadron (Medium) on 13 Jan 1942; 22d Observation Squadron on 4 Jul 1942; 22d Reconnaissance Squadron (Bombardment) on 2 Apr 1943; 22d Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron on 11 Aug 1943. Inactivated on 31 Aug 1946. Activated on 19 Apr 1965. Organized on 1 Dec 1965. Inactivated on 15 Oct 1971. Redesignated 22d Tactical Drone Squadron on 24 May 1976. Activated on 1 Jul 1976. Inactivated on 1 Apr 1979. Redesignated 22d Intelligence Squadron, and activated, on 1 Oct 1993.
Assignments. 22d Aero: Unkn, 16 Jun 1917-Mar 1918; attached to RAF for operations and training, Mar-Jun 1918; unkn, Jun-Aug 1918; 2d Pursuit Group, Aug 1918-Apr 1919. 135th Aero (later 22d Observation): Unkn, 1 Oct 1917-Jul 1918; IV Corps Observation Group, Jul 1918; Second Army Observation Group, Nov 1918-Feb 1919; unkn, Feb-May 1919; Southern Department, May 1919 (evidently attached to Field Artillery School until Nov 1921); Eighth Corps Area, 20 Aug 1920; Fourth Corps Area, Nov 1921; 12th Observation Group, 30 Jun 1931 to consolidation in 1937. Consolidated squadron: 12th Observation Group, from consolidation in 1937; Eighth Corps Area, 1 Jun 1937; Third Army, 3 Oct 1940; VIII Army Corps, c. Nov 1940; 73d Observation Group, 1 Sep 1941; 74th Observation (later, Reconnaissance; Tactical Reconnaissance) Group, 12 Mar 1942; 69th Tactical Reconnaissance (later, Reconnaissance)
