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The 1st Weather Reconnaissance Squadron is an inactive United States Army Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 311th Photographic Wing, Mapping and Charting. It was inactivated at Grenier Field, New Hampshire on 21 December 1945.

History
Established as a weather reconnaissance training unit at Fairfield-Suisun AFB, California, with a mission of training replacement personnel for weather reconnaissance and for conducting special research studies for development of equipment and reconnaissance techniques. Operated WB-29 Superfortress weather aircraft

Moved to Tinker AFB, Oklahoma on 1 October 1948. Squadron was discontinued on 30 March 1950. Personnel were transferred to the 513th Reconnaissance Squadron, VLR, Weather, which had moved to Tinker AFB in the status of a “paper organization”. Almost immediately the 513th was alerted for a special project at Dhahran Airfield, Saudi Arabia. Flight B of the squadron deployed to Arabia, leaving Flights A, C, and D at Tinker AFB.

Lineage

 * Established as 1st Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Special), and activated 1 June 1948
 * Re-designated as: 2078th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Special), 1 October 1948
 * Discontinued on 20 March 1950

Assignments

 * 308th Reconnaissance Group (Weather), 1 June 1948-20 March 1950

Stations

 * Fairfield-Suisun AFB, California, 1 June 1948
 * Tinker AFB, Oklalhoma, 1 October 1949-20 March 1950

Aircraft

 * WB-29 Superfortress, 1948-1950