2d Airlift Squadron
The 2nd Airlift Squadron (2 AS) of the United States Air Force is an airlift squadron operating from Pope Air Force Base, Fayetteville, North Carolina. They operate C-130 Hercules aircraft. The squadron is part of the 43d Airlift Wing of the Air Mobility Command.
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.[1]
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.
Assignments
- 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
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–present
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–present
Operations
Trained transport pilots, 21 May-1 October 1942; airborne assault on Myitkyina, Burma, 17 May 1944; aerial transportation in CBI, 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–present
Notes
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
- ^ *"43d Operations Group". http://public.pope.amc.af.mil/units/organizations/43doperationsgroup/index.asp. Retrieved 2006-08-18.
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