Under the new designation, 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit ( PRU ), based at RAF Benson, 1 PRU went on to a distinguished wartime record, eventually operating five squadrons out of a number of bases.
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He gives some brief background about himself and his flying career with the RAF's No . 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, but devotes most of the book to his escape attempts while a prisoner of the Germans.
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The 91st SRW was a long-range photographic reconnaissance unit equipped with a mixture of RB-17 Flying Fortresses and RB-29 Superfortresses equipped with wide variety of photographic reconnaissance and mapping cameras in the bomb bays.
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On 1 June 1982, the Unit was revived at RAF Wyton when No . 39 Squadron was disbanded and some of its English Electric Canberra PR . 9 reconnaissance aircraft were transferred to a newly formed No . 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit.
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The squadron was reformed on 1 July 1992 when No . 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF at Wyton, equipped with Canberra PR Mk 9 aircraft was re-numbered 39, moving to RAF Marham in December 1993, where it also received Canberra PR Mk 7s.
