32d Intelligence Squadron

32d Intelligence Squadron
Squadron RF-4C Phantom IIs at RAF Alconbury in 1970
Active	1943-1945; 1952–1976; 1991-present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Type	Squadron
Role	Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Part of	Air Combat Command
Garrison/HQ	Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
Engagements	European Theater of Operations Mediterranean Theater of Operations
Decorations	Distinguished Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with Combat "V" Device Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Insignia
32d Intelligence Squadron emblem (approved 18 July 1996)
Patch with 32d Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron emblem
Patch with 32d Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron emblem (approved 17 January 1955)

The 32d Intelligence Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force 707th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group located at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland.

The 32d Intelligence Squadron is a specialized organization that consists of teams of intelligence professionals who support global power and secure and maintain information superiority by conducting operations that support Air Force, joint, combined, and special operations in peacetime and in war.

It provides effective organization, control, technical guidance, training, support, products, and tasking for ongoing intelligence analysis and dissemination activities. Serves the Department of Defense and other customers as directed, providing the core capability assisting the National Security Agency mission, through around-the-clock operations in support of national and tactical objectives. Performs information operations through multiple sources for national, theater, and tactical customers.

The squadron was established in mid-1943 as a tactical reconnaissance and photograp[hic mapping squadron. Initial squadron training was under the Third Air Force, before it was deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and became part of Fifteenth Air Force in southern Italy in August 1945.

Equipped primarily with unarmed Lockheed F-5 Lightnings, the squadron flew hazardous long-range intelligence and photo-mapping missions over enemy-held Italy and Occupied Europe, to get pictures required for the aerial war against the Axis powers. Initially it flew most missions over enemy-occupied Italy, Corsica and Sardinia, later flying missions over the Balkans. After the German surrender in May 1945, the squadron's personnel were demobilized in Italy during the summer of 1945, and the squadron was inactivated as a paper unit in the United States during October.