Raymond D Olson
Military![](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/media/media-41008.jpeg)
L-R:
Rear Row:
Carl Rosenberger; Harold VanDer Cruyssen (partially hidden); Leo Myers; Byron Crader; Joseph Merhar; Ben Hines; Ben Michener; General Ira Eaker; Colonel James Hall; Robert Bickett; Charles Bresee; Joseph Angebrandt; Elmer Lawson; Harry Goodall; James Harbour; John Sevier.
Front Row:
George Belston; Raymond Olson; James Reynolds; Richard Brown; Aubrey Williams; Eugene Morris; Francis Durkin; William Nicholson; Gilbert Pickens; Loren Wright; Herbert Goldberg; Robert Jung; Fleming Vigorito.
Deleted incorrect Richard E Brown and added Richard M Brown
Object Number - UPL 41008 - 13th Photo Squadron Photo Lab staff photographed in June 1943 wher General Ira Eaker presented Colonel James Hall wit the Air Medal. L-R: Rear...
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![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](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-57721.jpeg?itok=CbWnfEGp)
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
![Photographic officers of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group look through camera lenses infront of a B-17 Flying Fortress. Image stamped on reverse: 'Esten Illustrated.' [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 8 Jul 1943.' [stamp] and '273528.' [Censor no.]. A printed caption was previously attached to the reverse, however this has been removed.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-380976.jpg?itok=zrxuKlZU)
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Died |
29 July 1988 |
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Sources
7th Photo Recon Group Master Directory, 6 June 1996 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia