page_title: 653d Bombardment Squadron
hierarchical_section_title: 653d Bombardment Squadron
caption_attribution_description: English: de Havilland Mosquito PR XVI of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bombardment Group, at RAF Watton England.
context_page_description: The 653d Bombardment Squadron is a former United States Army Air Forces unit. The squadron assumed the personnel and equipment of a provisional unit in the summer of 1944. It carried out weather reconnaissance missions from England for the remainder of World War II. Following V-E Day, the squadron returned to the Port of Embarkation at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, where it was inactivated on 19 December 1945.
context_section_description: The 653d Bombardment Squadron is a former United States Army Air Forces unit.  The squadron assumed the personnel and equipment of a provisional unit in the summer of 1944.  It carried out weather reconnaissance missions from England for the remainder of World War II.  Following V-E Day, the squadron returned to the Port of Embarkation at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, where it was inactivated on 19 December 1945.
caption: de Havilland Mosquito of the 25th Bombardment Group
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