Activated 2nd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Air Route, Medium, 1 Feb 44;  Inactivated 28 Dec 45

Assignments

• Guskhara India, home base
• Ceylon to Comilla to Chabua. Flew weather recon for Combat Cargo Task Force, ATC and the "Little Hump" (Ratmalana Air Field near Colombo, Ceylon to Chabua).
• China: Hsing-Ching Army Air Base in Chengtu China area of Szechuan China. The China flight rotated back to India then to Calcutta or Ceylon (Sri Lanka) for R&R. No major maintenance could be done at Comilla so it was done at Guskhara.

Stations

Key Fld, Meridian, MS, Jan 45; Guskhara Fld, India, 14 Oct 44

COMMANDERS.  

Aircraft

The first person was assigned to the 2nd Squadron on 1 February 1944. In August 1944 the squadron departed for the China-Burma-India theater. Mission: to fly weather route reconnaissance over the Hump, from Barrackpore/Guskhara India, to Kunming China and synoptic flights over the Indian Ocean and the stormy Bay of Bengal.

SERVICE STREAMERS.

CAMPAIGN STREAMERS.

ARMED FORCES EXPEDITIONARY STREAMERS.

DECORATIONS.  

EMBLEM.

Date prepared. 24 Oct 06

Prepared by Joseph Tabaco

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