Transition Training Squadron Atlantic was a United States Navy training squadron in World War II. It was established on 28 July 1941 upon redesigned of the Operational Training Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet. It was stationed at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, with one detachment at Naval Air Station Banana River, Florida and one detachment at Glenn L. Martin Company, Middle River, Maryland.Commanding Officer. "War Diary of Headquarters Squadron 5-2 for November 1943", United States Navy, dated 6 December 1943, page 1 (accessed from '' Fold3 website''). It fell under the Commander, Naval Air Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet. The mission of the squadron was "to give advanced

patrol plane A maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), also known as a patrol aircraft, maritime reconnaissance aircraft, or by the older American term patrol bomber, is a fixed-wing aircraft designed to operate for long durations over water in maritime patrol roles ...

training to newly graduated naval aviators, fresh from training centers, prior to assignment to Patrol plane units in the fleets.""Pearl Harbor Attack"
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Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack The Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, also known as The Pearl Harbor Committee, was a committee of members of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives formed during the 79th United State ...

, Congress of the United States, Seventy-ninth Congress, First and Second Sessions, Part 16, Joint Committee Exhibits Numbers 88 through 110, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1946, page 2203.

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