Between 1967 and 2018, multiple generations of military and civilian Airmen working in building 1269 on Hill Air Force Base witnessed 11 name changes and/or organizational moves. While the unit evolved from an OL, to a Detachment, to a Flight in a Training Squadron, to a Combat Camera Squadron, back to an OL, and in 2018 reactivated and re-designated as 2d Audiovisual Squadron, the primary mission was and still is audiovisual production. 2 AVS’s lineage traces back to the 2 Army Air Forces Combat Camera Unit (CCU) established in 1943. CCU re-designated 2 Combat Camera in 1945. 2 Combat Camera has been activated, inactivated, consolidated, re-designated 16 times in its history.

Hill Television (Audiovisual) Lineage: OL-1 1365^th Photographic Sq, AAVS; OL-A HQ AAVS; Det-8, 1365th Photographic Sq; Det-8, 1369th Photographic Sq; Det-8, 1365th Photographic Sq; Det-8, 1365th Audiovisual Sq; Det-8 2nd Combat Camera Sq; AETC XO Media Production Flight; Media Production Flight of the 367th Training Support Sq; 2nd Combat Camera Sq under AFPAA; OL-H HQ Air Force Public Affairs Agency; 2d Audiovisual Squadron under HQ AFPAA.

2^d Audiovisual Sq Lineage. Constituted as 2 Army Air Forces Combat Camera Unit on 4 Feb 1943. Activated on 12 Feb 1943. Re-designated as 2 Combat Camera Unit on 1 Aug 1945. Inactivated on 30 Nov 1945. Activated on 1 Jun 1949. Inactivated on 26 Sep 1949. Activated on 1 Sep 1950. Re-designated as 2 Photographic Sq on 1 May 1951. Inactivated on 8 Jun 1954. Consolidated (1 Apr 1992) with the 1352 Audiovisual Sq, which was designated, and activated, on 1 Oct 1985. Re-designated as: 1352 Audiovisual Sq (Combat Camera) on 1 Feb 1990; Inactivated on 1 Apr 1996. Activated on 23 Oct 2009. Inactivated 1 Oct 2014. Reactivated and re-designated 2 Audiovisual Sq 29 March 2018.

Assignments. 1 Motion Picture Unit, 12 Feb 1943; AAF, India-Burma Sector, c. 27 Jun 1944 (attached to 8 Photo Reconnaissance Group, Jul-26 Oct 1944; XX Bomber Command, 27 Oct 1944-c. Apr 1945); XXI Bomber Command, c. 8 Jun 1945; Twentieth Air Force, 16 Jul-30 Nov 1945. 311 Air Division (attached to 91 Strategic Reconnaissance Wing), 1 Jun-26 Sep 1949. 2750 Air Base Wing, 1 Sep 1950;

Air Pictorial Service, 5 Jun 1951; 4860 Photo (later, 1350 Photo) Group, 12 Feb 1952 (attached to Far East Air Forces, 24 Jul 1952-); Air Photographic and Charting Service, 1 Jan-8 Jun 1954 (remained attached to Far East Air Forces to 8 Jun 1954). Aerospace Audiovisual (later, Air Combat Camera) Service, 1 Oct 1985; 615 Air Mobility Operations Group, 22 Jul 1994-1 Apr 1996. Air Force Public Affairs Agency, 23 Oct 2009- Oct 2014; Air Force Public Affairs Agency, 28 March 2018 to present.

Stations

Culver City, CA, 12 Feb 1943-3 May 1944 (not manned, Feb-Aug 1943)

Karachi, India, 27 Jun 1944; Bally, India, 10 Jul 1944

Tollygunge, India, Jul 1944

Kharagpur, India, Nov 1944

Hijli, India, Nov 1944-6 May 1945

Tinian, 8 Jun-30 Nov 1945. McGuire AFB, NJ, 1 Jun-26 Sep 1949

Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 1 Sep 1950; Long Beach, CA, 15 Sep 1951

Lockheed Air Terminal, Burbank, CA, 1 Apr-16 Jun 1952

Yokota AB, Japan, 24 Jul 1952-8 Jun 1954

Norton AFB, CA, 1 Oct 1985

March AFB, CA, 4 Oct 1993-1 Apr 1996 (Det-8 assigned to 2CTCS under ACCS)

Hill AFB, UT, 1 Oct 2009-1 Oct 2014

Hill AFB, UT, 29 March 2018 – present.

Service Streamers. World War II Asiatic-Pacific Theater.

Campaign Streamers. Korea: Summer-Fall, 1952; Third Korean Winter; Summer, 1953.

Decorations

Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards:

1 Jan 1986-30 Jun 1987

1 Jul 1989-30 Jun 1991

Air Force Organizational Excellence Award:

1 Jun 1991 - 31 May 1993

1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2015 (OL-H, AFPAA)

Air Force Meritorious Unit Award:

1 Oct 2009 – 30 September 2010.