After training in the United States under Second Air Force, the squadron deployed to the China Burma India Theater, where it performed combat mapping.

mostly with North American B-25 Mitchells and Consolidated B-24 Liberators equipped with vertical and oblique Mapping cameras until moving to Clark Field in the Philippines, where it was inactivated in 1946.

In Asia, the squadron deployed detachments to a number of locations, although the headquarters remained in Guskhara Airfield, India.

[6] In 1958 and 1959 the squadron returned to Burma when it participated in Operation South Bound, which provided assistance to the Burmese Air Force in combatting local insurrectionists.

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