Walter Dale Shade

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media-57722.jpeg UPL 57722 Walter Dale Shade, Commanding Officer of the 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron.

Image courtesy of Nigel Dawe, who was sent this image from his friend Dale Shade

Object Number - UPL 57722 - Walter Dale Shade, Commanding Officer of the 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron.

From April 1943 to May 1945, 37 missions P-38, 2 missions Spitfire, 11 missions P-51 Fighter escort for the unarmed F-5B Photo Recon. One bail out from burning F-5B (P-38) test flight at Mt. Farm.



6 AM/ DFC/ Croix de Guerre w/ Silver Star

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Lima, Ohio 17 April 1918

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey,pp.187-8

Walter Dale Shade: Gallery (2 items)

Painted wooden sign board, depicting the emblem of the 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, USAAF. Previously hung outside the squadron’s photo laboratory at Mount Farm, Oxfordshire during the Second World War. This signboard was created at Mount Farm, Oxfordshire c.1944. It hung outside the 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron’s Laboratory. In March 1945, when the unit moved to Chalgrove, the Commanding Officer Major Walter Dale Shade (1918-2005), got a base carpenter to cut the board

Object number: FEQ 1844 - Painted wooden sign board, depicting the emblem of...

Object number: UPL 57722 - Walter Dale Shade, Commanding Officer of the 13th...