5th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
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The 5th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron is an inactive
3d Reconnaissance Group. It was inactivated at Pomigliano Airfield
, Italy on 12 September 1945.
History
Established in early 1942; trained under
O-59 Grasshoppers and flew observation fights largely over Fort Campbell
, Kentucky while Army units were training in ground maneuvers.
Deployed to
Lockheed F-4 Lightning
aircraft.
Deployed to Mediterranean Theater of Operations, assigned to
Free French units in the liberation of Corsica
, 1944.
Inactivated in Italy after the German Capitulation, summer 1945.
Lineage
- Constituted as the 5th Photographic Squadron on 19 January 1942
- Activated on 1 February 1942
- Redesignated: 5th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 9 June 1942
- Redesignated: 5th Photographic Squadron (Light) on 6 February 1943
- Redesignated: 5th Combat Mapping Squadron on 21 January 1944
- Redesignated: 5th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 31 August 1944
- Inactivated on 12 September 1945[1]
Assignments
- Air Force Combat Command, 1 February 1942
- Army Air Forces, 9 March 1942
- 73d Observation Group, 12 March 1942
- Eighth Air Force, 10 May 1942
- VIII Bomber Command, 7 September 1942
- 3d Reconnaissance Group(later 3rd Photographic Reconnaissance and Mapping Group, 3rd Photographic Group) from Oct 1942
- 3d Photographic Group (later 3rd Reconnaissance Group), 21 Jan 1944 – 12 Sep 1945 (flight attached to 5th Photographic Group, 10 March – 9 May 1944)[1]
Stations
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Aircraft
- O-59 Grasshopper, 1942
- Lockheed F-4 Lightning, 1942–1943
- Lockheed F-5 Lightning, 1943–1945
- Spitfire PR Mk XIII (attached) 1943–1944
- Spitfire PR Mk IX, 1944–1945
- North American F-10 Mitchell, 1944–1945[1]
References
Notes
- Explanatory notes
- Citations
Bibliography
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
- Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. OCLC 72556.
- Watkins, Robert A. (2009). Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the U.S. Army Air Force In World War II. Vol. IV, European-African-Middle Eastern Theater of Operations. Atglen,PA: Shiffer Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7643-3401-6.
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