30th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron

The 30th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 75th Tactical Reconnaissance Group stationed at Key Field, Mississippi. It was inactivated on 1 May 1944.

Lineage

 * Constituted 30th Army Reconnaissance Squadron on 20 November 1940
 * Activated on 30 November 1940
 * Redesignated: 30th Observation Squadron on 14 August 1941
 * Redesignated: 30th Observation Squadron (Medium) on 13 January 1942
 * Redesignated: 30th Observation Squadron on 4 July 1942
 * Redesignated: 30th Reconnaissance Squadron (Fighter) on 2 April 1943
 * Redesignated: 30th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron on 11 August 1943
 * Disbanded on 1 May 1944.

Assignments

 * Fourth Corps Area, 30 November 1940
 * Third Army, 24 January 1941
 * Second Army, c. May 1941
 * II Air Support Command, 1 September 1941
 * 75th Observation (later Reconnaissance; Tactical Reconnaissance) Group, 12 March 1942-1 May 1944

Stations

 * Atlanta Army Airfield, Georgia, 30 November 1940
 * Tullahoma AAF, Tennessee, 29 June 1942
 * Key Field, Mississippi, 17 August 1943-1 May 1944

Aircraft

 * In addition to O-49, 1941–1943, O-47 and L-4, 1942–1943, and A-20, 1943
 * Included O-38, 1941–1942
 * O-52, 1942, and O-46, B-25, and DB-7, 1942–1943
 * P-39, P-40, and P-51, 1943-1944.

Operations history
Operational/Replacement training unit, 1940–1944