653d Bombardment Squadron

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Active 1944-1945 Type Weather Reconnaissance		Country United States Engagements World War II

Branch United States Army Air Force

The 653d 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.

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Constituted 653d Bombardment Squadron (Heavy, Weather Reconnaissance) on 17 July 1944

Activated on 9 August 1944.Inactivated on 19 December 1945.

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

RAF Watton, England, 9 August 1944

RAF Chalgrove, England, 5 August 1945

Hitcham Air Depot, England, 15 October–December 1945

Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 17–19 December 1945.

B-24 Liberator, 1944

B-17 Flying Fortress, 1944

Mosquito XVI, 1944–1945

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

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