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363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Group
363rd Tact Recce Group
Wing & Command Assignments:
70th FW, IX ASC 23-12-1943 (as 363rd FG)
100th FW, XIX TAC 08-1944 (as 363rd FG)
363rd FG became 363rd TRG 04-09-1944
Subsequently to XXIX TAC on 01-10-1944
Squadrons :
- 33rd PRS '2W' from 10-44 to 05-45.
- 160th PRS 'A9' from 09-44 to 05-45.(was: 380th FS 'A9')
- 161th PRS 'B3' from 09-44 to 05-45.(was: 381st FS 'B3')
- 162nd PRS 'C3' from 09-44 to 10-44.(was: 382nd FS 'C3')
P51D Mustang when the 363rd still was a fighter unit
Combat Aircraft:
F6 Mustang
F5 Lightning
Stations:
- (363rd FG) Keevil 23-12-1943
- (363rd FG) Staplehurst (Adv.Landing Ground) 04-1944
- (363rd FG) A15 Maupertus (F) 05-07-1944
- (363rd FG) A7 Azeville (F) 08-1944
- A35 Le Mans (F) 09-1944
- A97 Luxembourg (L) 01-10-1944
- Y-10 Le Culot-East (B) 29-10-1944
- Y-55 Venlo (NL) 11-03-45
- Y-99 Gütersloh (G) 15-04-45
- R37 Brunswick (G) 22-04-45
- (363rd FG) Col. John R. Ulrics 23-12-1943 to 07-05-1944
- (363rd FG) Col. James B. Tipton to 01-09-1944
- Col. James M. Smelley to 05-1945
Facts:
First Mission:(363rd FG) 23-02-1944
First Mission as TRG: 12-09-1944
Major Awards:
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