Productions

Behind the scenes

Imagery

Behind the scenes

Mobile Live Productions

(Courtesy photo)

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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.

2d 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 - 30 Nov 1945 

Activated on 1 Jun 1949 - 26 Sep 1949 

Activated on 1 Sep 1950

Re-designated as 2 Photographic Sq on 1 May 1951 - 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 - 1 Apr 1996

Activated on 23 Oct 2009 - 1 Oct 2014

Reactivated and re-designated 2 Audiovisual Sq 29 March 2018.

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.

 

Assignments Service Streamers 

1 Motion Picture Unit, 12 Feb 1943

AAF, India-Burma Sector, 27 Jun 1944 (attached to 8 Photo Reconnaissance Group, Jul-26 Oct 1944; XX Bomber Command, 27 Oct 1944 - 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 (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.

Service Streamers Campaign 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

 

 

 

For assistance, call:
Comm: 801-777-2989
Email: 2AVS.CSS.PA@us.af.mil