The 82d Reconnaissance Squadron is part of the 55th Wing at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, USA.

The 82d flew antisubmarine patrols off the California coast from 8 December 1941 to 16 August 1942.

It went on to fly combat sorties in the Southwest and Western Pacific from 27 November 1943 to 15 August 1945.

On 11 January 1945, while flying an F-6D Mustang on an armed reconnaissance mission over northern Luzon in the Philippines, Captain William A. Shomo, the squadron commander at the time, sighted a Japanese formation of twelve fighters escorting a bomber.

The squadron flew strategic reconnaissance over Southeast Asia from August 1967 to March 1973.