2d Airlift Squadron

2nd Airlift Squadron
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Active	1935–1945; 1992–2016
Country	United States of America
Branch	United States Air Force
Part of	43d Airlift Wing, Air Mobility Command
Nickname(s)	Lancers
Decorations	DCU

The 2nd Airlift Squadron (2 AS) of the United States Air Force is an inactive airlift squadron that last operated from Pope Field, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina. They operated C-130 Hercules aircraft. The squadron was last part of the 43d Airlift Group of Air Mobility Command.

The squadron trained transport pilots, 21 May-1 October 1942; transported troops and airdropped them during the airborne assault on Myitkyina, Burma, 17 May 1944; aerial transportation in China-Burma-India theater, 25 February 1943-c. August 1945; airlift of Chinese troops to eastern China for disarmament operations, September-November 1945. Airlift for airborne troops, 1 June 1992–2015.

The squadron flew C-130H2 Hercules transport aircraft on airlift missions and shared these aircraft in an association with the Air Force Reserve Command's 440th Airlift Wing. After being moved to Pope in the 2005 BRAC, the 440th became the first Air Force Reserve Wing to have an active duty associate squadron.^[1][2][3]

Mission

Provide the Department of Defense with highly trained, highly motivated, combat-ready aircrews who execute the best tactical airlift/airdrop operations in the United States Air Force.^[4]

History

Lineage

• Constituted 2d Provisional Transport Squadron on 1 March 1935

Redesignated 2d Transport Squadron, and activated, on 28 June 1935

Redesignated 2d Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 July 1942

Inactivated on 24 December 1945

• Redesignated 2d Airlift Squadron, and activated, on 1 June 1992.

Inactivated on 14 June 2016^[5]

Assignments

• Middletown Air Depot, Pennsylvania, 28 June 1935
• 10th Transport (later, 10th Troop Carrier) Group, 20 May 1937
• Tenth Air Force, c. 17 February 1943

Attached to India-China Wing, Air Transport Command, 9 March-1 July 1943

• Assam Air Base Command, c. 1 July 1943

Attached to Troop Carrier Command, Eastern Air Command, 20 December 1943-6 March 1944

• 443d Troop Carrier Group, 6 March 1944-24 December 1945
• 23d Operations Group, 1 June 1992-1 April 1997
• 43d Airlift Wing, 1 April 1997–1 March 2011
• 43d Airlift Group, 1 March 2011-14 June 2016

Stations

• Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania, 28 June 1935
• Stout Field, Indiana, 21 May 1942
• Kellogg Field, Michigan, 1 July 1942
• Bowman Field, Kentucky, 4 August 1942
• Pope Field, North Carolina, 1 October 1942-23 January 1943
• Yangkai, China, 17 February 1943
• Dinjan, India, 1 July 1943
• Shingbwiyang, Burma, 14 August 1944
• Dinjan, India, 1 June 1945
• Chihkiang, China, 24 August 1945
• Hankow, China, 25 September-21 November 1945
• Camp Anza, California, 23–24 December 1945
• Pope AFB, North Carolina, 1 June 1992–14 June 2016

Aircraft

• C-27, 1935–1937
• C-33, 1936–1939
• Including C-39 and various civilian and military modifications of DC-3 during period 1939-1941
• C-47, 1942–1945
• C-46, 1945
• C-130, 1992–2015

Notes

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

1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-03. Retrieved 2012-07-30. 
2. ↑ http://www.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123023512
3. ↑ http://www.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123056630
4. ↑
   • "43d Operations Group". Retrieved 2006-08-18. 
5. ↑ Barnes, Marc. "AMC unit at Pope Army Airfield is renamed". Air Mobility Command. USAF. Retrieved 24 June 2016. 

External links

• "Air Force Mobility Command". Archived from the original on 20 August 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-18. 

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