322d Troop Carrier Squadron

322d Troop Carrier Squadron

Emblem of the 322d Troop Carrier Squadron
Active 1944-1957
Country United States
Branch United States Army Air Forces

The 322d Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Fifth Air Force, being inactivated at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa on 8 December 1957.

The squadron was originally activated by the Fourteenth Air Force at Kunming Airport, China to provide air transportation in that country. At the end of the war, it airlifted Chinese troops to bases in eastern China for disarmament operations. The squadron was reactivated on Okinawa in the 1950s as a special operations unit, replacing the 581st Air Resupply Group.

History

Lineage

Activated on 9 September 1944
Inactivated on 6 January 1946
Activated on 18 September 1956
Inactivated on 8 December 1957

Assignments

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

Stations

Aircraft

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

    External links

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