APPENDIX IV

Special Units

(UNITS, STATIONS, FUSELAGE, AND TAIL CODES)

7th Photo Reconnaissance Group

Chalgrove, Hitcham

13th, 14th, 22nd, 27th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadrons

Special Operations Groups

Watton, Harrington

36th, 788th, 850th Squadrons

(Designated 801 BG March 28, 1944; redesignated 492nd BG Aug. 11, 1944.)

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Sgt. J. E. Nation of Atlanta, Georgia (left), and Pfc. G. T. Lombard from Whitman, Massachusetts, prepare a Lockheed F-5, photo reconnaissance version of the P-38, for a mission over Nazi-occupied Europe. The airmen are mounting K-24 aerial cameras in the Lightning’s nose at the 7th Photo Reconnaissance Group’s airfield at Chalgrove, England, on July 1, 1943. USAAF

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