14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron

Squadron
The insignia of the 14th Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group . Featuring Bugs Bunny. media-395228.jpg FRE 5285 The insignia of the 14th Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group . Featuring Bugs Bunny. Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 5285 - The insignia of the 14th Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group . Featuring Bugs Bunny.

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Mount Farm

People

Bruce Baker Fish

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Photo Reconnaissance Pilot

Basil C Forkin

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron

Ard R Foster

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron

Charles E Hancock

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13063439
Lieutenant-Colonel George Lawson decorates Major Cecil T. Haugen, of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group at Mount Farm, in March 1944. caption on image: "Lt. Col. George Lawson Decorating Maj. Cecil T. Haugen ... Later killed near Mount Farm, Eng. in a Spit XI."

Cecil T Haugen

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron 27th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-661833
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

MB952

  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Nicknames: Kisty I
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
A Spitfire Mk XI (serial number M3-955) of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group.

MB955

  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Nicknames: Lease Fleece
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron

MB956

  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Nicknames: Photogenic Virgin
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron 22nd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron

PA841

  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Nicknames: Kisty the 1st
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
A Mark XI Spitfire (serial number PA842) of the 14th Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group takes off past a Cessna UC-78 at Mount Farm Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Handwritten on slide case:"Spitfire PA842 Mount Farm Astrella"

PA842

  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Nicknames: Hot Toddy
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron

Revisions

Date
Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter
Changes
Sources

Consolidation of duplicate units and connections to reflect the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group's structure according to "Air Force Combat Units of World War 2", Ed. Maurer Maurer, Office of Air Force History. Washingto D.C. 1983. (p.45).

Also includes Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron: Gallery (76 items)

Object number: UPL 17255 - A Mk XI Spitfire of the 14th Photographic...

Object number: UPL 17261 - General Robert J Dixon. Served in 3 wars: WW II...

Object number: UPL 17262 - Laupheim Airfield Germany August 11, 1944...

Object number: UPL 17264 - Krauss-Maffei Locomotive Plant in Allach August 11...

Object number: UPL 17805 - Supermarine Spitfire PL767 PR Mk XI, assigned to...

Object number: UPL 17806 - Supermarine Spitfire PL767 PR Mk XI, assigned to...

Object number: UPL 19046 - Luftwaffe Airfield Dessau May 30,1944. Sortie 1670...

Object number: UPL 19049 - Luftwaffe Airfield Dessau May 30,1944. Sortie 1670...

Object number: UPL 19050 - D-Day Beach Mulberry Harbor - Photo of a portion...

Object number: UPL 19052 - Halberstadt Airfield [Image cropped] Mission flown...

Object number: UPL 19053 - Juno Beach June 12, 1944. Photographed from PA841...

Object number: UPL 19054 - Near Juno Beach/Village With Balloon Crop June 12...