In December 1941 a detachment of a "Tow Target Squadron" was at Clark Airbase Philippine Islands.
Is Unit number/lineage known?

My station list for AAF in the Far East, dated 30 Nov 41, shows it as an unnumbered Tow Target Detachment of one flight, which had 6 officers and 43 enlisted (all Air Corps).  This unit had B-10B's assigned, which were modified for towing targets.
I believe this unit was activated in June or July 1941. It was used to train the 200th Coast Artillery Regiment (AA) at Fort Stotsenburg (near Clark Field), and other antiaircraft units in the Philippines.

Mark

As Mark pointed out, the unit at Clark Field was a Tow Target Detachment, not a Detachment of a Tow Target Squadron.  Although in the USAF detachments are always part of another unit, during WW II in the AAF there were two types of detachments.  One was the same as present day detachments (for example, Detachment A, 315th Service Group), the other type was a unit by itself (for example, 310th College Training Detachment).  Tow Target Detachments did not become numbered Tow Target Squadrons until July 1942.  Until that time, they would be designated something like Tow Target Detachment, Clark Field.

As to this detachment's lineage, units that did not manage to evacuate the Philippines in the spring of 1942, but which surrendered to the Japanese, were kept on the rolls of the Army without changing their designations when the rest of the AAF did (Pursuit Squadrons did not become Fighter Squadrons, Observation Squadrons did not become Tactical Reconnaissance Squadrons, Materiel Squadrons did not become Service Squadrons, etc.)  This continued until Apr 1946, when the units were inactivated or disbanded.  Therefore it seems likely that the Tow Target Detachment, Clark Field continued on paper until 1946 under that name.

Bernie Shearon
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