8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron 5th Air Force

Constituted 8th Photographic Squadron on 19 Jan 1942. Activated on 1 Feb 1942. Redesignated: 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 9 Jun 1942; 8th Photographic Squadron (Light) on 6 Feb 1943; 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 13 Nov 1943; 8th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (Night Photographic) on 10 Aug 1948; 8th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (Photographic) on 1 Aug 1949. Inactivated on 25 Feb 1951.

Japanese made silk embroidered, c. 1945-1948

Stations. Chofu, Japan, 28 Sep 1945; Irumagawa, Japan, 25 Jan 1946; Yokota, Japan, 25 Mar 1949 (detachment operated from Itazuke, Japan, from 29 Jun 1950); Itazuke, Japan, 9 Jul 1950; Taegu, Korea, 2 Oct 1950; Komaki, Japan (operated from Taegu, Korea), 26 Jan25 Feb 1951.