Photos - 55th Weather Recon Squadron

The AWA Weather Reconnaissance section contains photos from various Weather Recon units as shown at the links below. If you have a historical document, photo, or video to add to the Weather Recon section, please notify the Website Administrator.

55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
56th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
58th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
9th Weather Reconnaissance Group

This page has nine photos from the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (55 WRS) and eleven photos from the 7 Oct 1946 hurricane mission courtesy of the AFWA History Office and Bernie Barris. The 54WRS is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was to the 41st Rescue and Weather Reconnaissance Wing at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, where it was inactivated on 30 September 1987.

The squadron was first activated as the 655th Bombardment Squadron in 1944. After training in the United States, the squadron moved to the Pacific Theater in the spring of 1945, where, as the 55th Reconnaissance Squadron, it provided weather reconnaissance for Boeing B-29 Superfortress strategic bombing campaign against Japan. After V-J Day, the squadron returned to the United States and conducted weather reconnaissance until October 1947, when it was inactivated and its personnel and equipment transferred to another unit.

The squadron was reactivated at McClellan Air Force Base, California as the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron. Redesignated the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in 1954, the squadron flew weather reconnaissance missions until 1953, except for a brief inactive period in the early 1960s.

It was activated in 1997 under its most recent name, when it absorbed the resources of the 50th Weather Squadron, which had replaced the Air Force Space Forecast Center in 1994. It was last assigned to the 50th Operations Group at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, where it was inactivated on 16 July 2002. For details, see the Wikipedia page.
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