13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
Squadron
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
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Reconaissance Photographer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-1644989
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36222725
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36222738
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19142084
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
Mission
- Date: 3 July 1943
- Date: 1 July 1943
- Date: 29 June 1943
- Date: 28 June 1943
- Date: 27 June 1943
Revisions
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)
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
