8th Intelligence Squadron
US Air Force unit
Military unit
The United States Air Force 's 8th Intelligence Squadron is an intelligence unit located at Hickam AFB , Hawaii .
Lineage
Constituted as the 8th Photo Lab Section on 21 Oct 1943
Activated on 1 Nov 1943
Redesignated 8th Photographic Technical Unit on 4 Nov 1944
Inactivated on 1 Apr 1949
Redesignated 8th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron on 16 October 1984 (remained inactive)[ note 1]
Redesignated 8th Intelligence Squadron on 9 Dec 2008
Activated on 1 January 2009[ 1]
Assignments
Stations
Will Rogers Field , Oklahoma, 1 November 1943
Woodward Army Air Field , Oklahoma, 27 December 1943
Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma, 6 Feb 1944
Camp Stoneman , California, 26 March – 9 April 1944
Australia, 30 April 1944
Nadzab , New Guinea, 5 May 1944
Hollandia , New Guinea, 25 June 1944
Biak Island New Guinea, 14 August 1944
Leyte , Philippines, 5 November 1944
Mindoro , Philippines, 29 January 1945
Clark Field , Luzon , Philippines, 20 March 1945
Toguchi , Okinawa , 27 July 1945
Tachikawa , Japan, 27 September 1945
Irumagawa Army Air Base , Japan, 19 January 1946 – 1 April 1949
Hickam Air Force Base , Hawaii, 1 Jan 2009 – present[ 1]
Decorations
References
Notes
^ The squadron is not related to the 8th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron that was assigned to Eighth Air Force from 1952 to 1960. That unit is active as the 3d Intelligence Squadron .
^ Robertson identifies the wing as the "91st Photographic Reconnaissance Wing," but see Maurer, Combat Units , pp. 410-411
Notes
Bibliography
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
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