654th Bombing Squadron
Constituted 654th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy, Reconnaissance, Special) on 17 Jul 1944. Activated on 9 Aug 1944. Redesignated: 54th Reconnaissance Squadron (Long Range, Weather) on 4 Sep 1945; 54th Reconnaissance Squadron (very Long Range, Weather) on 27 Nov 1945. Inactivated on 15 Oct 1947. Redesignated 54th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron (Medium, Weather) on 22 Jan 1951. Activated on 21 Feb 1951. Redesignated 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron on 15 Feb 1954. Discontinued on 18 Mar 1960. Organized on 18 Apr 1962.
Assignments. 25th Bombardment Group (Reconnaissance), 9 Aug 1944; Third Air Force, 8 Sep 1945; 311th Reconnaissance Wing, 27 Nov 1945 (attached to Twentieth Air Force, 8 Dec 1945-28 Feb 1946); Air Weather Service, 13 Mar 1946; 43rd Weather Wing, 1 Aug-15 Oct 1947. 2143rd Air Weather Wing, 21 Feb 1951; 1st Weather Wing, l8 Feb 1954; Department of the Air Force, 18 Mar 1960; Military Air Transport Service, 8 Feb 1962; 9th Weather Reconnaissance Group, 18 Apr 1962--.
Stations. Watton, England, 9 Aug 1944-25 Jul 1945; Drew Field, Fla, c. 6 Aug 1945; Guam, 27 Nov 1945; Buckley Field, Colo, 28 Feb 1946; Langley Field, Va, 2 Jun 1946; Morrison Field, Fla, 19 Jul 1946-11 Jun 1947; North AB, Guam, 7 Jul -15 Oct 1947. Andersen AFB, Guam, 21 Feb 1951-18 Mar 1960. Andersen AFB, Guam, 18 Apr 1962--.
Aircraft. B-25, 1944; Mosquito SVI, 1944-1945; B-26, 1944-1945; P-38, 1944-1945; B-29, 1946-1947; C-47, 1946-1947. WB-29, 1951-1956; C-54, 1951-1960; YC-97, 1952-1953; TB-50, 1955; WB-50, 1955-1960. WB-50, RB-57, and C-130, 1962--.
Operations. Photographic and weather reconnaissance in ETO, 9 Aug 1944-4 May 1945. Weather Reconnaissance in support of the Korean War.
Service Streamers. Asiatic-Pacific Theater; Korean Theater.
Campaigns. Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe; Air Combat, EAME Theater.
Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Mar-Oct 1956.
Emblem. On a blue disc, edged white and blue a representation of a broad light flash with forked edges, yellow, starting from upper left [sinister] to lower right [dexter]; thereon a stylized "fireball" red, moving downward, holding in the right hand a wind instrument and in the left hand a thermometer all gray. (Approved 10 Aug 1951.)