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652d Bombardment Squadron

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Active
  
1944-1945

Type
  
Weather Reconnaissance

Country
  
United States

Engagements
  
World War II

652d Bombardment Squadron

Branch
  
United States Army Air Force

The 652d Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with VIII Fighter Command, based at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. It was inactivated on 19 December 1945.

Contents

Lineage

  • Constituted 652d Bombardment Squadron (Heavy, Weather Reconnaissance) on 17 July 1944
    • Activated on 9 August 1944. Inactivated on 19 December 1945.

    Assignments

  • 25th Bombardment Group (Reconnaissance), 9 August 1944
  • 1st Air Division, 13 July 1945
  • 3d Air Division, 25 August 1945
  • 1st Air Division, 1 September 1945
  • 3d Air Division, 12 October 1945
  • VIII Fighter Command, 1 November-19 December 1945
    • Attached to: 325th Reconnaissance Wing, 6 January-12 October 1945

    Stations

  • RAF Watton, England, 9 August 1944
  • RAF Alconbury, England, 13 July 1945
  • RAF Raydon, England, 25 October– December 1945
  • Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, C. 17–19 December 1945.

    • Aircraft

  • B-24 Liberator, 1944
  • B-17 Flying Fortress, 1944¬1945.

    • Operations

    Weather reconnaissance in ETO, 10 August 1944 – 26 September 1945.

    References

    652d Bombardment Squadron Wikipedia
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