13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron

Squadron
Painted wooden sign board, depicting the emblem of the 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, USAAF.  Previously hung outside the squadron’s photo laboratory at Mount Farm, Oxfordshire during the Second World War. This signboard was created at Mount Farm, Oxfordshire c.1944. It hung outside the 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron’s Laboratory. In March 1945, when the unit moved to Chalgrove, the Commanding Officer Major Walter Dale Shade (1918-2005), got a base carpenter to cut the board media-57721.jpeg FEQ 1844 Painted wooden sign board, depicting the emblem of the 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, USAAF. Previously hung outside the squadron’s photo laboratory at Mount Farm, Oxfordshire during the Second World War.

This signboard was created at Mount Farm, Oxfordshire c.1944. It hung outside the 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron’s Laboratory. In March 1945, when the unit moved to Chalgrove, the Commanding Officer Major Walter Dale Shade (1918-2005), got a base carpenter to cut the board in half and send it home to the US. IWM collections

Object Number - FEQ 1844 - Painted wooden sign board, depicting the emblem of the 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, USAAF. Previously hung outside the squadron’s...

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35018837
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron 1274th Military Police Company
  • Service Numbers: 36534928
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 7071323
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron 22nd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-567304
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32230021

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: Base Air Depot 3 492nd Bomb Group 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 801st Bomb Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron 22nd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron 36th Bomb Squadron 857th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

Date
ContributorLucy May
Changes
Sources

Combined two entries for this squadron. Source for the now deleted duplicate entry that was named '13th Photographic Squadron':
Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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