LINEAGE

Constituted as 3 AAF Combat Camera Unit and activated on 12 Feb 1943

Inactivated on 27 Oct 1945

Consolidated (20 Oct 2009) with the 1365 Audiovisual Squadron (Combat Camera) which was activated as the 1365 Photographic Squadron on 1 Jan 1976; 1365 Audiovisual Squadron (Combat Camera) on 1 Feb 1990.

Inactivated on 1 Apr 1992

Redesignated as 3 Combat Camera Squadron on 20 Oct 2009

Activated on 23 Oct 2009

Redesignated as 3 Audiovisual Squadron on 4 Apr 2018

ASSIGNMENTS

1 Motion Picture Unit, 12 Feb 1943; Eighth Air Force 3 Nov 1943; 8 Reconnaissance Wing (Provisional) (attached to 2 Bomb Division), 27 Feb 1944

325 Photographic Wing, Reconnaissance, 9 Aug 1944; Eighth Air Force, 6 Feb 1945

VIII Fighter Command, 16 Jul-27 Oct 1945

Aerospace Audio-Visual Service (later Aerospace Audiovisual Service), 1 Jan 1976-1 Apr 1992

Air Force Public Affairs Agency, 23 Oct 2009-present

STATIONS

Culver City, CA, 12 Feb 1943

Fort Hamilton, NY, 14-21 Oct 1943

Liverpool, UK, 3 Nov 1943; Camp Lynn (High Wycombe), UK, 3 Nov 1943

Cheddington, UK, 11 Nov 1943; Teddington, UK, by 31 Dec 1943

Hethel, UK, by 28 Feb 1944

Camp Lynn (High Wycombe), 22 Apr 1944-27 Oct 1945

Kelly AFB, TX, 1 Jan 1976

Lackland AFB, TX, 15 Jul 1980-1 Apr 1992

Lackland AFB, TX, 23 Oct 2009-present

SERVICE STREAMERS

World War II: European-African-Middle Eastern Theater