652nd Bombing Squadron
Constituted 652nd Bombardment Squadron (Heavy, Weather Reconnaissance) on 17 Jul 1944. Activated on 9 Aug 1944. Inactivated on 19 Dec 1945.
Assignments. 25th Bombardment Group (Reconnaissance), 9 Aug 1944; 1st Air Division, 13 Jul 1945; 3rd Air Division, 25 Aug 1945, 1st Air Division, 1 Sep 1945; 3rd Air Division, 12 Oct 1945; VIII Fighter Command, 1 Nov-19 Dec 1945.
Stations. Watton, England, 9 Aug 1944; Alconbury, England, 13 Jul 1945; Raydon, England, 25 Oct-Dec 1945; Camp Kilmer, NJ, c. 17-19 Dec 1945.
Aircraft. B-24, 1944; B-17, 1944-1945.
Operations. Weather reconnaissance in ETO, 10 Aug 1944-26 Sep 1945.
Service Streamers. None.
Campaigns. Northern France; Air Combat, EAME Theater.
Decorations. None.
Emblem. On a yellow disc, border light turquoise blue, a caricatured, white duck, facing toward sinister, with orange bill and feet, wearing a dark gray, swallowtail coat and derby, holding a folded umbrella of the last in the tip of the left wing, and a thermometer, proper, under the right wing, standing beneath a large, threatening, gray cloud in dexter chief, with four, small, jagged, red lightning flashes emanating therefrom, and the laughing face of the sun golden orange over the border in sinister chief, with black ray lines issuing therefrom. (Approved 21 Feb 1945.)