The 28th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 316th Bombardment Wing, being stationed at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa. It was inactivated on 29 May 1946.
Constituted as: 28th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 5 February 1943
Redesignated as:
28th Photographic Squadron (Light) on 6 February 1943
Activated on 1 May 1943
Redesignated as:
28th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 11 August 1943
Inactivated on 29 May 1946.
7th Photographic (later Photographic Reconnaissance and Mapping) Group, 1 May 1943
Third Air Force Photographic Unit Training Center
Attached to 2d Photographic Reconnaissance and Mapping Group, 21 June 1943
III Reconnaissance Command, 15 August 1943
89th Reconnaissance Training Wing, 27 September 1943
Attached to 9th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, 16 November 1943
Seventh Air Force, c. 16 January 1944
Attached to VII Fighter Command, 24 January 1944
VI Air Service Area Command
Seventh Air Force, 23 April 1945
Eighth Air Force, 31 August 1945
316th Bombardment Wing, 15–29 May 1946.
Peterson Field, Colorado, 1 May 1943
Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma, 13 October 1943 – 1 January 1944
Kipapa Airfield, Hawaii Territory, 16 January 1944
Detachment operated from: Kwajalein Airfield, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 30 June – 24 September 1944
Detachment operated from: East Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 11 July 1944 – May 1945
Detachment operated from: Peleliu Airfield, Peleliu, Palau Islands, 5 October 1944 – April 1945
Kualoa Airfield, Hawaii Territory, 9 October 1944
Detachment operated from Ie Shima Airfield, Okinawa, 23 April – 8 May 1945
Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, 8 May 1945 – 29 May 1946
Detachment operated from Ie Shima Airfield, Okinawa, 14 May – 21 June 1945
In addition to F-5, 1943–1946, included P-38 and F-4 in 1943 and A-24 in 1944.
Combat in Central and Western Pacific, 4 July 1944 – August 1945. Participated in Eastern Mandates; Western Pacific; Ryukyus; Air Offensive, Japan; China Offensive campaigns.
