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Hard to Realize - Oregon Connections to the End of the War in the Pacific

Engineering personnel of one of the detached flights of the 35th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron are seen here servicing the engines of a Lockheed F-5E “Photo Lightning” (converted in the U.S. from Lockheed P-38J-15-LO 43-28301 to become an F-5E-2-LO, and given the squadron ID number 815) at an austere location in southeastern China late in the war. The squadron and detachments were prepared to continue operations from their bases in China against Imperial Japanese forces had the war continued. The squadron returned to the States and was inactivated in November, 1945. In May, 1946 the squadron was redesignated as the 123rd Fighter Squadron and returned to the state of Oregon. (John Brasko Collection, 142nd Wing History Archive)

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