3rd Composite Squadron

3rd Composite Squadron
Active	1942-1945
Country	United States
Branch	United States Army Air Force
Role	Training

The 3rd Composite Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the XIX Tactical Air Command, based at Lawson Army Airfield, Georgia. It was inactivated on 7 November 1945.

History

Lineage

Constituted 7th Observation Squadron on 28 January 1942

Activated on 6 February 1942

Redesignated: 7th Reconnaissance Squadron on 22 June 1943

Redesignated: 3d Composite Squadron on 9 October 1943

Inactivated on 7 November 1945

Disbanded on 8 October 1948.

Assignments

Office of Chief of Air Corps, 6 February 1942
Headquarters, Army Air Forces, 9 March 1942

Attached to Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia

III Reconnaissance Command, 30 August 1943
I (later III) Tactical Air Division, 8 November 1943
III Tactical Air Command, 1 October 1944
XIX Tactical Air Command, 25 October-7 November 1945

Stations

Pope Field, North Carolina, 6 February 1942
Lawson Field, Georgia, 6 April 1942 – 7 November 1945.

Aircraft

L-1 Vigilant, 1942–1943
Aeronca L-3, 1942–1944
L-4 Grasshopper, 1942
North American O-47, 1942–1943
O-52 Owl, 1942–1943
Northrop A-17A, 1943
A-20 Havoc, 1943–1944

P-39 Airacobra, 1943–1944
B-25 Mitchell, 1943–1945
L-5 Sentinel, 1943–1945
P-44 Rocket, 1944–1945
P-51 Mustang, 1944–1945
A-36 Apache, 1944
A-26 Invader, 1945

Operational history

Aerial support for training ground forces.

References

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.

External links

USAAF Third Air Force in World War II

Airfields

Group Training Stations
Replacement Training Stations
Tactical Airfields

Units

Commands

Divisions

III Tactical Air Division

Wings

Groups

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