322d Troop Carrier Squadron
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322d Troop Carrier Squadron | |
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Active | 1944-1957 |
Country | United States |
Branch | United States Army Air Forces |
The 322d Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive
Okinawa
on 8 December 1957.
The squadron was originally activated by the
Okinawa in the 1950s as a special operations unit, replacing the 581st Air Resupply Group
.
History
Lineage
- Constituted as the 322d Troop Carrier Squadron on 25 August 1944
- Activated on 9 September 1944
- Inactivated on 6 January 1946
- Redesignated the 322d Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium (Special) on 18 July 1956
- Activated on 18 September 1956
- Inactivated on 8 December 1957
Assignments
- Fourteenth Air Force, 9 September 1944
- Tenth Air Force, 25 August 1945 – 6 January 1946
- Attached to 443d Troop Carrier Group, 4 September-1 December 1945
- 313th Air Division, 18 September 1956
- Fifth Air Force, 12 February-8 December 1957.
Stations
- Kunming Airport, China, 9 September 1944
- Loping Airfield, China, 25 May 1945
- Liangshan Airfield, China, 1 August 1945
- Chihkiang Airfield, China, 25 August 1945
- Hankow Airfield, China, 3 October-i December 1945
- Washington, 4–6 January 1946
- Okinawa, 18 September 1956 – 8 December 1957.
Aircraft
- C-47 Skytrain, 1944–1945
- C-46 Commando, 1945
- C-54 Skymaster, 1956–1957
- SA-16 Albatross, 1956–1957
- C-119 Flying Boxcar, 1956–1957
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
- Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. OCLC 72556.
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