Photograph U. S. Army Air Forces PRS Lockheed P-38 Lightning SNOOPING MISSION

  
ON THIN PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER PRODUCED BY. The 30th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron. 30th PRS was initially deployed to the European Theatre of Operations in England, assigned to Ninth Air Force and flew P-38 Lightnings. From February 1944 it was stationed at the Royal Air Force reconnaissance training school at RAF Chalgrove in Oxfordshire, later moved to RAF Middle Wallop where the squadron became operational. The squadron was engaged in hazardous unarmed combat operations over Occupied Europe, mapping huge areas of the Netherlands, and undertaking bomb damage assessment sorties.