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    The 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was to the 41st Rescue and Weather Reconnaissance...
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    The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, also known by its nickname, Hurricane Hunters, is a flying unit of the United States Air Force, and "the only...
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    The Air Force Reserve 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, the world's only operational military weather reconnaissance unit, is based at Keesler Air...
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    variants over-lapped as they operated with the 53rd, 54th, 55th and 56th Weather Reconnaissance Squadrons. The -E and -H models have had the greatest longevity...
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  • Operation Popeye (category Weather modification)
    rainfall by about 30 to 45 days each monsoon season. The 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron carried out the operation using the slogan "make mud, not...
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    (Air Force serial number 65-0965) was transferred to the 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, the "Typhoon Chasers", at Andersen Air Force Base on Guam...
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  • Air Force 54th Fighter Squadron, United States Air Force 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, United States Air Force VA-54 (U.S. Navy) Second VA-54 (U...
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    tankers for Tactical Air Command (TAC) and WB-50 weather reconnaissance aircraft for the Air Weather Service. These tanker and hurricane-hunter variants...
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    Air Force Base, Mississippi, 1 July 1973 - 31 August 1975 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron: 8 February 1962 - 8 July 1965, 8 July 1965 -31 August 1975...
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    support for the U.S. Navy. Andersen was also home to the 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron "Typhoon Chasers" during the 1960s through the 1980s. Air...
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    Squadron. Redesignated the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in 1954, the squadron flew weather reconnaissance missions until 1953, except for a brief...
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    Cloud seeding (category Weather modification)
    period an average of 30 to 45 days in the targeted areas. The 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron carried out the operation to "make mud, not war". An attempt...
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    23 June 1951 53d Reconnaissance Squadron, 20 March 1946 – 17 October 1946, 2 April 1951 – 20 April 1953 54th Reconnaissance Squadron, 20 March 1946 –...
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    1951, when the aircrew of a WB-29 aircraft assigned to the 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, formerly assigned to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, was...
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  • Weather Reconnaissance Squadron at McClellan Air Force Base. He remained there until 1975, when he was transferred to the 54th Weather Reconnaissance...
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    Jersey. The wartime squadron, designated the 35th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron redesignated as the 123d Fighter Squadron, Single Engine and was...
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  • United States Air Force has several types of weather squadrons. List of United States Air Force squadrons "Clear skies forecasted as 7th ECWS becomes 13th...
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  • "53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron 'Hurricane Hunters'". 403rd Wing. Retrieved 22 August 2022. Haulman, Daniel L. (12 January 2001). "53 Weather Reconnaissance...
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    157th Fighter Squadron was bestowed the history, honors, and colors of the 350th Fighter Squadron and assigned to the Georgia ANG 54th Fighter Wing, an...
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    1969. Four years later, the squadron was activated in the reserves. It has performed airlift and weather reconnaissance missions from Keesler Support...
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    Tropical Depression 06W. The next day, aircraft reconnaissance data from the 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron indicated that the depression intensified...
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    Operations Squadron is a network warfare unit located at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The squadron was established as the 70th Reconnaissance Squadron during...
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    equipment of the 54th Reconnaissance Squadron, which was simultaneously inactivated. The squadron performed weather reconnaissance missions in the Pacific...
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    intensification. Several aircraft reconnaissance missions were flown by the U.S. Air Force 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron into the storm between October 5...
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    the war. The wartime 40th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron was re-designated as the 103rd Bombardment Squadron and allotted to the Pennsylvania Air...
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    54th Reconnaissance Squadron: 17 October 1946 – 15 October 1947 55th Reconnaissance Squadron: 17 October 1946 – 15 October 1947 59th Reconnaissance Squadron:...
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    The 427th Reconnaissance Squadron is an active United States Air Force (USAF) unit assigned to Beale Air Force Base, California. The squadron's roots go...
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  • Squadron, P-38 Lightnings 12th Weather Detachment 15th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, B-17 Flying Fortresses 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron...
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    Army Airfield was home to several 36th Bomb Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers; 54th Fighter Squadron P-38 Lightnings, and five B-24 Liberators...
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    The squadron was redesignated the 512th Reconnaissance Squadron and activated in 1947 as a weather reconnaissance unit. Except for a brief period of inactivation...
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