Patrol Squadron 22 (VP-22)
Patrol Bombing Squadron 22 (VPB-22)
U.S. Navy (USN)

Background
Patrol Squadron 22 (VP-22) was part of Patrol Wing 10 (Pat Wing 10) in the the U.S. Navy (USN).

Wartime History
On February 5, 1942 lost is PBY-5 Catalina 2304 ran aground during take off from Saumlaki Seaplane Base and was abandoned.

On February 19, 1942 lost is PBY-5 Catalina 2306 damaged by Zeros near Melville Island and was damaged and crashed near Bathurst Island to the north of Darwin.

On April 7, 1944 commissioned at NAAS Harvey Point in Hartford, North Carolina. On October 1, 1944 redesignated Patrol Bombing Squadron 22 (VPB-22) equipped with the PBM-30 Mariner. On August 25, 1944 departs Alameda, California bound for NAS Kaneohe Bay on Oahu. On October 10, 1944 departs NAS Kaneohe Bay on a ferry flight across the Pacific via Eniwetok via Johnston Island and Kwjaliein arriving eleven days later. On November 18, 1944 departs Kwjaliein via Eniwetok to Kossol Passage off Palau to Saipain.

References
NARA "Patrol Bombing Squadron Twenty-Two (VPB-22) 7 April 1944–31 May 1945 / 1 June 1945–31 August 1945"