6th Tactical Missile Squadron The 6th Tactical Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit . It was last assigned to the New York Air Defense Sector of Aerospace Defense Command , stationed near Suffolk County AFB , New York . It was inactivated on 15 December 1964 . History . World War II Antisubmarine Operations . What is now the 6th Tactical Missile Squadron was originally activated as the 3d Reconnaissance Squadron in early 1941 , equipped with B - 25 Mitchell s as part of First Air Force . After the United States entered World War II the squadron was ordered to search for German U - Boat s and to fly aerial coverage of friendly convoys initially off the southeast coast . It then moved to Mitchel Field , New York to patrol the sea approaches to New York City . In April 1942 , the squadron was redesignated as the 393d Bombardment Squadron ( Medium ) . Later in 1942 , the squadron was redesignated as 6th Antisubmarine Squadron , and reassigned to 25th Antisubmarine Wing of Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command ( AAFAC ) . After joining AAFAC , it moved to Westover Field , Massachusetts to patrol the sea approaches to Boston , then to Gander , Newfoundland to fly antisubmarine patrols over North Atlantic convoy routes . The squadron was reassigned to 479th Antisubmarine Group in Southwest England in August 1943 and flew killer hunts against German U - Boat s in the Bay of Biscay off the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border . Along this part of the occupied French coast were major Kriegsmarine U - Boat bases at Brest , Lorient , Saint - Nazaire , La Rochelle ( La Pallice ) and Bordeaux . Its ground echelon was ordered back to the United States in September 1943 just prior to inactivation of AAFAC , while the air echelon was disbanded in England in late October 1943 with squadron aircraft reassigned to the United States Navy . Squadron personnel remaining in England were reassigned to Eighth Air Force units as replacement personnel . World War II Pacific Theater and Occupation of Japan . The second birth of the squadron was in 1944 , when it was activated as the 6th Combat Cargo Squadron at Syracuse Army Air Base , New York as part of the 2d Combat Cargo Group . After training in New York and moving briefly to Baer Field , Indiana for overseas processing , the squadron moved to the Pacific . Operating from Biak Island , it flew passengers and cargo to American bases in Australia , New Guinea , the Admiralty Islands , and the Philippines . The squadron also dropped supplies to American and Philippine resistance forces . It transported personnel and supplies to the Ryukus and evacuated casualties on the return flights until moving to Okinawa . It then transported personnel and equipment to Japan and ferried liberated prisoners of war to the Philippines . It moved to Japan , where it served as part of the Occupation Forces , until it was inactivated in 1946 . The squadron was disbanded in 1948 . Cold War . The third activation of the squadron was as the 6th Air Defense Missile Squadron on 1 February 1959 . It stood alert during the Cold War , equipped with IM - 99 ( later CIM - 10 ) BOMARC surface to air antiaircraft missiles . The squadron was tied into a Semi - Automatic Ground Environment ( SAGE ) direction center which could use analog computers to process information from ground radars , picket ships and airborne aircraft to accelerate the display of tracking data at the direction center to quickly direct the missile site to engage hostile aircraft . It was inactivated on 15 December 1964 . The BOMARC missile site was located southwest of Suffolk County AFB at . Although geographically separated from the base , it was an off base facility of Suffolk County and the squadron received administrative and logistical support from Suffolk County . In 1985 , the squadron was consolidated with the 6th Antisubmarine Squadron and the 6th Combat Cargo Squadron , but has never been active with this designation . Lineage . 6th Antisubmarine Squadron 6th Combat Cargo Squadron 6th Air Defense Missile Squadron