13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron | 3d Photographic Group | Eighth Air Force | theater-made Disney design

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13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron | 3d Photographic Group | Eighth Air Force | Disney design

 

LINEAGE. Constituted 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 9 Jun 1942. Activated on 20 Jun 1942. Redesignated: 13th Photographic Squadron (Light) on 6'Feb 1943; 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 13 Nov 1943. Inactivated on 1 Dec 1945.

 

ASSIGNMENTS. 3d Photographic (later Photographic Reconnaissance and Mapping) Group, 20 Jun 1942 (attached to 1st Bombardment Wing, 2 Dec 1942-16 Feb 1943, and to Eighth Air Force, 16 Feb-7 Jul 1943); 7th Photographic Reconnaissance and Mapping Group, 7 Jul 1943-21 Nov 1945.

 

STATIONS. Colorado Springs, Colo, 20 Jun-17 Oct 1942; Podington, England, 2 Dec 1942; Mount Farm, England, 16 Feb 1943; Chalgrove, England, 8 Apr 194.5; Grove, England, c. 13 Oct-23 Nov 1945; Camp Kilmer, NJ, 30 Nov-1 Dec 1945.

 

AIRCRAFT. In addition to P-38/F-5, 1942-1945, included L-4, 1942-1943, Spitfire, 1944 and P-51, 1945.

 

OPERATIONS. Combat in ETO, 28 Mar 1943-26 Apr 1945.

 

CAMPAIGNS. Air Offensive, Europe; Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe;
Air Combat, EAME Theater.

 

EMBLEM. Over and through an irregular outline figure light turquoise blue, charged with four yellow orange lightning bolts arranged three and one, a caricatured black cat, proper, eyes yellow, tongue light red, diving toward sinister base and holding a black aerial camera, trimmed blue and gray, winged light turquoise blue. Designed by Walt Disney Studios. (Approved 6 Mar 1944.)

 

Theater-made. Multi-piece fabric and embroidery.

 

 

 

Painted leather.

 

 

 

Source

Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961]. Air Force Combat Units of World War II.