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28th Photographic Reconnaissance

LINEAGE. Constituted 28th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 5 Feb 1943. Redesignated 28th Photographic Squadron (Light) on 6 Feb 1943. Activated on 1 May 1943. Redesignated 28th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 11 August 1943. Inactivated on 29 May 1946

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ASSIGNMENTS. 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 Jun 1943; III Reconnaissance Command, 15 Aug 1943; 89th Reconnaissance Training Wing, 27 Sep 1943 (attached to 9th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, 16 Nov 1943); Seventh Air Force, c. 16 Jan 1944 (attached to VII Fighter Command, 24 Jan 1944); VI Air Service Area Command (attached to VII Fighter Command), 12 Dec 1944; Seventh Air Force, 23 Apr 1945; Eighth Air Force, 31 Aug 1945; 316th Bombardment Wing, 15-29 May 1946.

STATIONS. Peterson Field, Colo, 1 May 1943; Will Rogers Field, Okla, 13 Oct 1943-1 Jan 1944; Kipapa Airfield, TH, 16 Jan 1944 (detachments operated from Kwajalein, 30 Jun-24 Sep 1944; Saipan, 11 Jul 1944-May 1945; Peleliu, 5 Oct 1944-Apr 1945); Kualoa Airfield, TH, 9 Oct 1944 (detachment operated from Okinawa, 23 Apr-8 May 1945); Okinawa, 8 May 1945-29 May 1946 (detachment operated from Ie Shima, 14 May-21 Jun 1945).

AIRCRAFT. In addition to F-5, 1943-1946, included P-38 and F-4 in 1943 and A-24 in 1944.

OPERATIONS. Combat in Central and Western Pacific, 4 Jul 1944-Aug 1945.

SERVICE STREAMERS. None.

CAMPAIGNS. Eastern Mandates; Western Pacific; Ryukyus; Air Offensive, Japan; China Offensive.

DECORATIONS. None.

EMBLEM. Over and through a light pastel blue disc, border black, a caricatured red wolf holding and focusing a black aerial camera, while riding a light gray winged comet, leaving curved yellow speed trail toward sinister chief, and diving toward small yellow sphere marked with blue land indications in sinister based, breaking through rim of disc, all between a yellow star and decrescent moon in dexter chief and a star of like color in sinister base. (Approved 2 Aug 1944.)

28th Troop Carrier

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