101st Bombardment (Photographic) Squadron

The 101st Bombardment (Photographic) Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the XIX Tactical Air Command, based at Brooks Field, Texas. It was inactivated on 25 December 1945.

History

Lineage

• Organized as 39th Aero Squadron on 5 June 1917

Redesignated Squadron A, Rich Field, Texas, on 14 July 1918

Demobilized on 19 November 1918

• Reconstituted and consolidated (1933) with 39th School Squadron which was constituted on 6 February 1923. Activated on 1 August 1927

Redesignated 39th Observation Squadron on 1 March 1935

Inactivated on 1 September 1936

• Activated on 1 February 1940

Redesignated: 39th Observation Squadron (Medium) on 26 February 1942

Redesignated: 39th Observation Squadron on 4 July 1942

Redesignated: 39th Reconnaissance Squadron on 25 June 1943

Redesignated: 101st Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 12 June 1944

Redesignated: 101st Bombardment (Photographic) Squadron on 7 February 1945

Inactivated on 25 December 1945

Disbanded on 8 October 1948.

Assignments

• Unknown, 1917–1918
• 10th School Group, 1 August 1927
• Air Corps Advanced Flying School, 16 July 1931-1 September 1936
• Panama Canal Department, 1 February 1940
• Panama Canal (later Caribbean, Sixth) Air Force, 20 November 1940
• 72d Observation Group, 7 March 1942

Attached to Trinidad Sector and Base Command after 6 August 1942

• Antilles Air Command, 1 June 1943
• Second Air Force, 15 March 1944
• Third Air Force, 5 April 1944
• 69th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 11 April 1944
• 74th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 29 January 1945
• XIX Tactical Air Command

Attached to 69th Reconnaissance Group, 7 November-25 December 1945

Stations

• San Antonio, Texas, 5 June 1917
• Chanute Field, Illinois, August 1917
• Rich Field, Texas, December 1917-19 November 1918
• Kelly Field, Texas, 1 August 1927-1 September 1936
• France Field, Canal Zone, 1 February 1940
• Howard Field, Canal Zone, 20 March 1942
• Waller Field, Trinidad, 6 August 1942-c. 26 February 1944
• Dalhart AAF1d, Tex, 15 March 1944
• Esler Field, Louisiana, 1 May 1944
• Stuttgart AAF, Arkansas, 6 February 1945
• Brooks Field, Texas, 5–25 December 1945.

Operations

Flying training unit, 1917–1918. Air defense in Caribbean area, 1940-1944.

See also

• List of American Aero Squadrons

References

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

• Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.

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