332d Troop Carrier Squadron

332d Troop Carrier Squadron
Emblem of the 332d Troop Carrier Squadron
Active	1944–1958
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force

The 332d Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 513th Troop Carrier Wing, being inactivated at Sewart AFB, Tennessee on 1 December 1958.

Established as the 11th Combat Cargo Squadron under the Fourteenth Air Force during World War II, the squadron transported supplies and reinforcements to and evacuating casualties in Burma and China, and performed the airlift of Chinese troops to eastern China for disarmament operations. Postwar, it provided transportation for General George C Marshall's Executive Headquarters (State Department agency), which was attempting to resolve the dispute between the Nationalist and Communist forces in China.

During the Cold War, the squadron flew cargo and personnel during the Berlin Airlift, and provided a tactical airlift during the 1950s for Tactical Air Command.

History

Lineage

• Constituted the 11th Combat Cargo Squadron on 1 June 1944

Activated on 5 June 1944

Redesignated the 332d Troop Carrier Squadron on 29 September 1945

Inactivated on 10 April 1947

• Redesignated the 332d Troop Carrier Squadron (Special) on 19 November 1948

Activated on 19 November 1948

Inactivated on 16 October 1949

• Redesignated the 332d Troop Carrier Squadron (Assault, Fixed Wing) on 30 June 1955

Activated on 8 November 1955

Redesignated the 332d Troop Carrier Squadron (Assault) on 1 July 1958

Inactivated on 1 December 1958

Assignments

• 3d Combat Cargo Group, 5 June 1944

Attached to the 443d Troop Carrier Group, 16 June–12 August 1944

• Fourteenth Air Force, c. 1 May 1945
• 513th Troop Carrier Group, C. 1 November 1945
• Army Air Forces, China

Under operational control of Peiping Headquarters Command, 15 April 1946

• United States Army Forces, China

Under operational control of Peiping Headquarters Command, 20 June 1946–10 April 1947

• 513th Troop Carrier Group, 19 November 1948 – 16 October 1949; 8 November 1955
• 513th Troop Carrier Wing, 1 July–1 December 1958

Stations

• Sylhet Airfield, India, 5 June 1944
• Dinjan Airfield, India, 6 June 1944

Detachment operated from Sookerating Airfield, India, 16 June–14 July 1944

• Yunnani Airfield, China, 14 May 1945
• Luliang Airfield, China, 20 June 1945
• Shanghai Airport, China, 12 October 1945
• Peiping Airport, China, 20 April 1946 – 10 April 1947
• Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, 19 November 1948 – 16 October 1949
• Sewart AFB, Tennessee, 8 November 1955 – 1 December 1958.

Aircraft

• C-47 Skytrain, 1944–1947
• C-46 Commando, 1945–1947
• C-54 Skymaster, 1948–1949
• C-119 Flying Boxcar, 1955–1956
• C-123 Provider, 1956–1958

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.