653d Bombardment Squadron

653d Bombardment Squadron
Emblem of the 653d Bombardment Squadron
Active	1944-1945
Country	United States
Branch	United States Army Air Force
Type	Weather Reconnaissance
Engagements	World War II

The 653d Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with VIII Fighter Command, based at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. It was inactivated on 19 December 1945.

History

Lineage

Constituted 653d Bombardment Squadron (Heavy, Weather Reconnaissance) on 17 July 1944

Activated on 9 August 1944.

Inactivated on 19 December 1945.

Assignments

25th Bombardment Group (Reconnaissance), 9 August 1944
1st Air Division, 13 July 1945
3d Air Division, 25 August 1945
1st Air Division, 1 September 1945
3d Air Division, 12 October 1945
VIII Fighter Command, 1 November-19 December 1945

Attached to: 325th Reconnaissance Wing, 6 January-12 October 1945

Stations

RAF Watton, England, 9 August 1944
RAF Chalgrove, England, 5 August 1945
Hitcham Air Depot, England, 15 October–December 1945
Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 17–19 December 1945.

Aircraft

B-24 Liberator, 1944
B-17 Flying Fortress, 1944
Mosquito XVI, 1944–1945

Operations

Weather reconnaissance in ETO, 10 August 1944 – 26 September 1945.

References

This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

External links

USAAF Eighth Air Force in World War II

Stations

United Kingdom	Alconbury Aldermaston Andrews Field Atcham Attlebridge Bassingbourn Bodney Bottisham Bovingdon Boxted Bungay Burtonwood Depot Bury St. Edmunds Bushey Hall Chalgrove Cheddington Chelveston Chipping Ongar Daws Hill Debach Debden Deenethorpe Deopham Green Duxford Earls Colne East Wretham Eye Fersfield Fowlmere Framlingham Glatton Goxhill Grafton Underwood Great Ashfield Great Dunmow Halesworth Hardwick Harrington Hethel Honington Horham Horsham St. Faith Ibsley Keevil Kimbolton Kings Cliffe Kirton In Lindsey Knettishall Lavenham Leiston Little Walden Martlesham Heath Membury Mendlesham Metfield Molesworth Mount Farm North Pickenham Nuthampstead Old Buckenham Podington Polebrook Rackheath Ramsbury Rattlesden Raydon Ridgewell Seething Shipdham Snetterton Heath Steeple Morden Sudbury Thorpe Abbots Thurleigh Tibenham Wattisham Watton Wendling Westhampnett Wormingford

Okinawa	Bolo Ie Shima Kadena Futenma Yontan

Units

Commands

VIII Air Support
VIII Bomber
VIII

Air Divisions

Wings

Bombardment	1st 2d 3d 4th 5th 12th 316th

Fighter	6th 65th 66th 67th 301st

Groups

Bombardment	34th 44th 91st 92d 93d 94th 95th 96th 97th 100th 301st 303d 305th 306th 310th 319th 320th 322d 323d 333d 346th 351st 379th 381st 382d 383d 384th 385th 386th 387th 388th 389th 390th 392d 398th 401st 445th 446th 447th 448th 452d 453d 457th 458th 466th 467th 486th 482d 487th 489th 490th 491st 492d 493d 801st (Provisional)

Fighter	1st 4th 14th 20th 31st 48th 55th 56th 78th 318th 339th 350th 352d 353d 354th 355th 356th 357th 358th 361st 362d 364th 413th 479th 495th 496th 507th

Troop Carrier	60th 62d 315th

Reconnaissance	3d 7th 25th 67th

United States Army Air Forces

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