Moving to India in February 1944, the unit was equipped with F5, F6, F7 and P40 aircraft to conduct photographic reconnaissance, photographic mapping, and visual reconnaissance missions.
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The work of visual reconnaissance was valuable only in that it kept the command informed at all times of the situation in the enemy lines opposite each corps.
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The Cobra helicopter gunship provides an even more menacing presence overhead, able to speed over the landscape at low altitude, darting over dunes, providing both armed and visual reconnaissance.
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Also on the list are at least six Tornado jets with equipment to jam Serb radar and detect Serb missiles; six Tornados for visual reconnaissance; and 12 Transall transport planes.
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Project Nanook, the Cold War s first Top Secret reconnaissance effort, used the first RB-29 missions for mapping and visual reconnaissance in the Arctic and along the northern Soviet coast.
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The Partisans were scattered in villages, forests and mountains and their positions could only be detected by a slow moving aircraft . Visual reconnaissance missions using hand-held cameras were also flown.
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Most of the sorties were confined to visual reconnaissance, but they included day and night photo missions as well, especially from 10th Photo Group, whose P-51s were stationed in the area.
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Originally reconnaissance Victors were equipped for visual reconnaissance; however, it was found to be cheaper to assign Canberra light bombers to this duty and as such the cameras were removed in 1970.
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The principal mission of the 163d Squadron continued to be the giving of air support to the new school as to the old, but it confined its efforts mainly to visual reconnaissance.
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Flew weather missions, made visual reconnaissance for ground forces, and photographed enemy positions to support the Normandy campaign and later to assist First Army and other Allied forces in the drive to Germany.
