3rd Composite Squadron

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.

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.