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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

Military unit

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

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
Fort Lawton, Washington, 4–6 January 1946
Kadena Air Base, 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. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.

External links

USAAF Fourteenth Air Force in World War II

Previously: 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) "Flying Tigers" (Dec 1941-July 1942) China Air Task Force (July 1942-Mar 1943)

Airfields

China	Ankang Chanyi Chengkung Chengtu Chihkiang Hanchung Hankow Hsian Hsingching Huhsien Kanchow Kunming Kwanghan Kweilin Laifeng Laohwangping Loping Liangshan Liuchow Luliang Nanning Peishiyi Pungchacheng Shwangliu Suichwan Tsuyung Yangkai Yunnani

Units

Wings

68th Composite
69th Composite
312th Fighter
Chinese-American Composite Wing (Provisional)

Groups

Bombardment	308th Bombardment 341st Bombardment 402d Bombardment
Fighter	23d Fighter 33d Fighter 51st Fighter 81st Fighter 311th Fighter 476th Fighter
Transport	443d Troop Carrier

Squadrons

Combat Cargo	1st Combat Cargo 2d Combat Cargo 11th Combat Cargo
Night Fighter	426th Night Fighter 427th Night Fighter
Reconnaissance	21st Photographic Reconnaissance 35th Photographic Reconnaissance
Transport	322d Troop Carrier