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The 19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron is an inactive unit of the
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. It last performed weather related duties as part of the
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in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2014. It was assigned to the
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. The squadron was first active during
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where it served in Africa. Following the end of the war, it was stripped of personnel and equipment, but remained on the active roll until 1947. The squadron was reactivated in 1948 and provided weather services from various bases in the midwestern United States until inactivating in 1961 .


History


World War II

The squadron was first organized at
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, District of Columbia at the end of June 1942. After organizing and training in the United States, it departed for the
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in September, arriving in Egypt in November. Squadron headquarters was located on the Horn of Africa, at
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by December, but relocated to Accra, Gold Coast (now Ghana) by the spring of 1943, and remained there for the rest of the war. The squadron operated through detachments located throughout northern Africa and, after 1943, in Italy. The squadron supported
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in the Mediterranean. By May 1944, it had seven detachments operating behind German lines in the Balkans, primarily in Albania and Yugoslavia. In March, two squadron weather observers and a radioman had parachuted into Yugoslavia and were embedded with
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forces to provide information for
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s
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ing supplies for the partisans. In the spring of 1946 the squadron left Accra, and in June 1946, moved without personnel to
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, Germany. It remained there as a paper unit until inactivating in October 1947.


Cold War

The squadron was again activated on 1 June 1948 at
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, Kansas. It moved twice in the next three years before arriving at
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, Missouri in September 1951, providing regional weather coverage for USAF units. From Kansas City, and later, from Grandview Air Force Base (later
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, its detachments provided weather services for the bases of
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(CADF) and the squadron commander acted as the staff weather officer for CADF. After CADF was inactivated, it provided the same services for
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bases. It was inactivated on 8 July 61 and its personnel and equipment transferred to the
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, which moved on paper from
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to Richards-Gebaur.


Global War on Terror

The squadron was redesignated the 19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron and converted to provisional status. It was assigned to
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(ACC) to activate or inactivate as needed. By October, ACC had organized the squadron at and assigned it to the
504th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group The 504th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was first activated as the 504th Tactical Air Support Group in 1966 for service during the Vietnam War, and was reactivated in 2009 for service i ...
at
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to perform weather observation and forecasting duties as part of the
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in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2014. The squadron primarily provided support to
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task forces operating throughout Afghanistan.


Lineage

* Constituted as the 19th Weather Squadron, Regional on 13 June 1942 : Activated on 30 June 1942 : Inactivated on 3 October 1947 * Redesignated 19th Weather Squadron : Activated on 1 June 1948 : Inactivated on 8 July 1961 * Redesignated 19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron and converted to provisional status, on 12 February 2009 : Activated by 2 October 2009 : Inactivated c. 10 November 2014


Assignments

*
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, 30 June 1942 * United States Army in the Middle East, 31 October 1943 * Army Air Forces Weather Service, 19 July 1945 * 5th Weather Group, 2 August 1946 – 3 October 1947 * 103 Weather Group (later 2103d Air Weather Group), 1 June 1948 *
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, 24 October 1950 * 2103d Air Weather Group, 16 September 1951 *
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, 20 April 1952 *
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, 8 August 1959 – 8 July 1961 * Air Combat Command to activate or inactivate at any time on or after 12 February 2009 :: 504th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group, by 2 October 2009 - c. 10 November 2014


Stations

* Bolling Field, District of Columbia, 30 June–24 September 1942 *
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, Egypt, 11 November 1942 * Fayid, Egypt, 14 November 1942 * Gura, Eritrea, 19 December 1942 * Accra, Gold Coast, 21 April 1943 * Cazes Air Base, French Morocco, c. May 1946 * Wiesbaden, Germany, 11 June 1946 – 3 October 1947 * Smoky Hill Air Force Base, Kansas, 1 June 1948 * Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado, 4 June 1949 * Kansas City, Missouri, 10 September 1951 * Grandview Air Force Base (later Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base), Missouri, 24 February 1954 – 8 July 1961 * Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, by 2 October 2009 - c. 10 November 2014Station information in Robertson, except as noted.


Awards and Campaigns


References


Notes

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Bibliography

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External links

* {{cite web, url= https://www.557weatherwing.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/872167/battlefield-weather-forecasting-mission-success/ , last1=Burks, first1=SSG Eric, title=Battlefield Weather - Forecasting mission success, date=March 7, 2013, publisher=United States Air forces Central Public Affairs, access-date=December 13, 2018
Heraldry - 19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron


See also

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List of United States Air Force weather squadrons The United States Air Force has several types of weather squadrons. Weather Squadrons Operational Weather Squadrons Weather Reconnaissance Squadrons Miscellaneous Weather Squadrons See also * List of United States Air Force squa ...
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