322d Troop Carrier Squadron

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322d Troop Carrier Squadron
Emblem of the 322d Troop Carrier Squadron
Active1944-1957
CountryUnited States
BranchUnited 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

Attached to
443d Troop Carrier Group
, 4 September-1 December 1945

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

Public Domain 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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