118th Airlift Squadron

118th Airlift Squadron
118th Airlift Squadron Emblem
Active	31 August 1917--present
Country	United States
Allegiance	United States Air Force
Branch	Connecticut Air National Guard
Type	Squadron
Role	Airlift
Part of	Air National Guard/Air Mobility Command
Garrison/HQ	Bradley International Airport
Nickname	Flying Yankees
Engagements	World War II

The 118th Airlift Squadron flies the C-21A Learjet. It is a unit of the Connecticut Air National Guard. Its parent unit is the 103rd Airlift Wing.

1 History
2 References
3 External links

History

Constructed facilities, repaired aircraft and equipment, and served as transportation and supply unit in Zone of Advance, 1918-1919. Emergency operations while under state control included surveillance flights in Connecticut during labor troubles in 1934. Antisubmarine patrols, 26 January-c. August 1942; air defense patrols in India in area to rear of combat zone, 28 March-4 June 1944; combat in CBI as fighter unit, 18 June 1944-21 January 1945, 16 April-ii August 1945.

Air National Guard squadron since 1945. The 118th Fighter Squadron won the first Hawgsmoke gunnery competition in 2000.

Lineage

Organized as 118th Aero Squadron on 31 August 1917

Redesignated 639th Aero Supply Squadron on 1 February 1918

Demobilized on 6 June 1919

Reconstituted and consolidated (1936) with 118th Observation Squadron which, having been allotted to National Guard, was activated on 1 November 1923.

Ordered to active service on 24 February 1941.

Redesignated: 118th Observation Squadron (Light) on 13 January 1942

Redesignated: 118th Observation Squadron on 4 July 1942

Redesignated: 118th Reconnaissance Squadron (Fighter) on 2 April 1943

Redesignated: 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron on 11 August 1943

Inactivated on 7 November 1945

Redesignated 118th Fighter Squadron, and allotted to Connecticut ANG, on 24 May 1946.

Received federal recognition and activated, 1 January 1947

Federalized and placed on active duty, 10 February 1951

Re-designated: 118th Fighter Squadron (Single Engine), 1 February 1951

Released from active duty and returned to Connecticut state control, 1 November 1952

Redesignated: 118th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 1 November 1952

Redesignated: 118th Tactical Fighter Squadron, April 1971

Redesignated: 118th Fighter Squadron, 1992

Redesignated: 118th Airlift Squadron, 2007

Assignments

Unknown, 31 August 1917-June 1918
Second Corps Aeronautical School, June 1918-c. March 1919
Unknown, c. March-6 June 1919
Connecticut National Guard (divisional aviation, 43d Division), 1 November 1923
IV Army Corps, 24 February 1941
66th Observation (later Reconnaissance; Tactical Reconnaissance) Group, 1 September 1941
III Reconnaissance Command, October 1943
Army Air Forces, India-Burma Sector, January 1944

Attached to Tenth Air Force, 14 February-c. 12 June 1944

Fourteenth Air Force, C. 12 June 1944

Attached to 23d Fighter Group, c. 16 June 1944-c. 15 August 1945

Tenth Air Force, 1 August 1945
Fourteenth Air Force, 25 August-7 November 1945
Connecticut Air National Guard, 24 May 1946

First Air Force (ADC), 1 January 1947

First Air Force (ConAC), 1 December 1948

26th Air Division (ConAC), 1 February 1950

26th Air Division (ADC), 1 January 1951

Federalized and placed on active duty under Air Defense Command, 10 February 1951

103d Fighter-Interceptor Group, 10 February 1951

4709th Defense Wing, 6 February 1952

Released from active duty and returned to Connecticut state control, 1 November 1952

103d Fighter-Interceptor Group (ADC), 1 November 1952

103d Tactical Fighter Group (TAC), April 1971

103d Tactical Fighter Wing (TAC), 1979-1992

103d Fighter Wing (ACC), 1992-2007

103d Airlift Wing (AMC), 2007-Present

Stations

Kelly Field, Texas, 31 August 1917
Garden City, New York, 3–13 January 1918
St Maixent, France, 29 January 1918
Ourches. France, 3 March 1918
Amanty, France

Detachment at Ourches, c. 24 March 1918

Châtillon-sur-Seine, France, 8 June 1918-1919
Mitchel Field, New York, c. 22 May-6 June 1919
Hartford Airport, Connecticut, 1 November 1923
Jacksonville Army Airfield, Florida, 16 March 1941
Charleston Army Airfield, South Carolina, 22 January 1942
Tullahoma AAB, Tennessee, 8 September 1942
Morris Field, North Carolina, 9 November 1942
Camp Campbell, Kentucky, 2 April 1943
Statesboro Army Airfield, Georgia, 23 June 1943

Aiken Army Airfield, South Carolina, 29 August 1943
Key Field, Mississippi, 25 October-18 December 1943
Gushkara, India, 16 February 1944

Detachments operated from Chakulia and Kharagpur, India, March-June 1944

Chengkung, China, June 1944

Air echelon at Kewilin, China, 16 June-14 September 1944

Liuchow, China, 34 September-7 November 1944, and Suichwan, China, 12 November 1944-22 January 1945

Operated primarily from Laohwangping, China, after 14 April 1945

Laohwangping, China, June 1945
Liuchow, China, C. 25 August-26 September 1945
Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 5–7 November 1945.
Bradley International Airport (1952–present)

Aircraft

C-27J Spartan (2014)
C-21A Learjet (2007–2014)
A-10A Thunderbolt II (1979–2007)
C-12 Huron (???-???)
F-100D Super Sabre (1971–1979)
F-102 Delta Dagger (1965–1971)
F-100A Super Sabre (1959–1965)
F-86 Sabre (1958–1959)
F-94B Starfire (1956–1958)

F-84D Thunderjet (1954–1956)
F-51 Mustang (1952–1954)
P-47 Thunderbolt (1947–1952)
C-47 Skytrain (1947–1950)
B-26 Marauder (1947–1950)
T-6 Texan (1947–1950)
L-5 Sentinel (1947–1950)
L-19 Bird Dog (1947–1950)

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References

	United States Air Force portal
	Military of the United States portal
	World War I portal
	World War II portal

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

^ World Airpower Journal. (1992). US Air Force Air Power Directory. Aerospace Publishing: London, UK. ISBN 1-880588-01-3

A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, by Lloyd H. Cornett and Mildred W. Johnson, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
Maurer, Maurer. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force: World War II. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1982.

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118th Airlift Squadron

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