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3.4.4 Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Provisional: Tinker AFB: 5 July 1950 – 1 June 1951 (part of Joint Task Group 3.4) 8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) (Provisional) RAF Bovingdon, RAF Watton: 28 March 1944 – 9 August 1944 (discontinued) 8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Light) (Provisional) RAF Bovingdon, RAF Watton
55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, McClellan AFB, California, 1963–1969; 57th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron Hickam AFB Hawaii xxxx–1969; The first of 34 WB-47Es was delivered to the AWS on 20 March 1963. The last operational USAF B-47 to fly was WB-47E-75-BW (51-7066) of the 57th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron on 30 October 1969.
The 57th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force squadron. Its last assignment was with the 9th Weather Reconnaissance Wing at Hickam Air Force Base , Hawaii, where it was inactivated on 10 November 1969.
The 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron carried out the operation using the slogan "make mud, not war." [ 6 ] Starting on 20 March 1967, and continuing through every rainy season (March to November) in Southeast Asia until 1972, operational cloud seeding missions were flown.
9 June 1969: Functioned as the primary Air Force tactical reconnaissance platform in the continental U.S. Elements rotated temporary duty assignments to Itazuke Air Base, Japan from July 1968 until April 1969 providing photo reconnaissance support to American forces in those areas during Pueblo Crisis. 125th Air Transport Squadron: Oklahoma
Douglas RB-66C Destroyer, 54-0471, of the 9th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, suffered an explosion in its starboard engine on climb-out from Shaw AFB, South Carolina, and thereupon attempted an emergency landing in zero-zero visibility weather at Donaldson AFB at Greenville, South Carolina. On the second attempt the aircraft struck an ...
1st Test Squadron: 15 October – 15 December 1969; 4th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron: 1 June – 26 July 1948; 71st Air Refueling Squadron, 1 February 1956 – 1 February 1963; 20th Operations Squadron: 15 October – 15 December 1969; 24th Fighter Squadron, 25 August – 15 October 1946; 28th Fighter Squadron: 25 August – 15 October 1946
Redesignated the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in 1954, the squadron flew weather reconnaissance missions until 1953, except for a brief inactive period in the early 1960s. It was activated in 1997 under its most recent name, when it absorbed the resources of the 50th Weather Squadron, which had replaced the Air Force Space Forecast ...