Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the command's units conducted antisubmarine warfare patrols off the Atlantic Coast.

The opposing force command posts were separated by sixty miles, which enabled greater freedom of action and use of airpower more aggressively.

[4] Following the attack on Pearl Harbor the command came under the control of the Eastern Theater of Operations[3] and flew antisubmarine patrols off the east coast.

[7][8] This was followed by a move to Morris Field, North Carolina, a base in the Third Air Force area in November 1942.

[1] After the end of the war, the command moved to Rapid City Army Air Base, South Dakota in November 1945, and was inactivated there in April 1946.

[1] This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency