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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 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

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Lineage

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  • 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

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  • 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

Stations

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Aircraft

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References

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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. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.
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