The 11th Photographic Group is an inactive United States Air Force

United States Air Force

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 unit. Its last assignment was with the Third Air Force

Third Air Force

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 stationed at MacDill Field, Florida. It was inactivated on 5 October 1944.

Lineage

• Constituted as I1th Photographic Group (Mapping) on 19 November 1943

Activated on December 1943

Disbanded on 5 October 1944

Assignments

• First Air Force
  First Air Force
  The First Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command . It is headquartered at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida....
  
  , 1 December 1943
• Third Air Force
  Third Air Force
  The Third Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Forces in Europe . It is headquartered at Ramstein Air Base, Germany....
  
  , 5 January – 5 October 1944

Components

• 1st Photographic Squadron
  1st Reconnaissance Squadron (World War II)
  The 1st Reconnaissance Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the Thirteenth Air Force. It was inactivated at Clark Field, Philippines on 10 March 1947.-History:...
  
  , 1 Dec 1943 – 5 Oct 1944
• 3d Photographic Squadron, 1 Dec 1943 – 5 Oct 1944
• 19th Photographic Squadron, 1 Dec 1943 – 5 Oct 1944

Stations

• Reading Army Airfield, Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
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  , 1 December 1943
• MacDill Field, Florida, 5 January – 5 October 1944

Operations history

Engaged in photographic mapping in the US and sent detachments to carry out similar operations in Africa, the CBI theater, the Near and Middle East, Mexico, Canada, Alaska, and the Caribbean

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