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1st Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
1st Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
	B-17E on mission over the North Atlantic
Active	1942-1945
Country	United States
Branch	Army Air Force
Type	Flying Squadron
Role	Weather Reconnaissance
Commanders
Capt Arthur A. McCartan	23 Sep 1942
Lt Col Clark L. Hosmer	23 Jun 1943
Maj Karl T. Rauk	14 Aug 1944
Capt Sidney C. Bruce	14 Feb 1945
Insignia
The Thunderbird - Emblem of the Army Air Forces Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Test) Number One and subsequent units
Aircraft flown
Reconnaissance	A-28 Hudson; B-17 Flying Fortress; B-25 Mitchell;

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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.