52d Troop Carrier Wing (World War II)

The 52d Troop Carrier Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the New York Air National Guard. It was inactivated on 31 October 1950.

The wing was formed a World War II command and control organization for newly organized troop carrier groups and glider units being trained for overseas deployment to combat theaters. Deployed to North Africa in 1943 and assigned to Twelfth Air Force, its units subsequently engaged in combat operations, carrying Army parachutists and towing gliders during Operation Husky. Reassigned to Ninth Air Force in England during 1944, the assigned groups, participated in Operation Overlord; Operation Market Garden and Operation Varsity. Also engaged in aerial resupply and casualty evacuation of wounded personnel as well as theater troop transport operations. Operated until V-E Day, then returned to the United States until inactivation in 1946.

History

Lineage

• Constituted as 52d Transport Wing on 30 May 1942

Activated on 15 June 1942

Redesignated 52d Troop Carrier Wing in July 1942

Inactivated on 27 August 1946.

• Redesignated 52d Fighter Wing. Allotted to ANG (NY) on 28 August 1946

Extended federal recognition on 3 October 1947

Inactivated on 31 October 1950.

Assignments

• I Troop Carrier Command, 15 June 1942
• Twelfth Air Force, 8 May 1943
• IX Troop Carrier Command, 17 February 1944 – July 1945
• I Troop Carrier Command, July 1945-27 August 1946

Components

Stations

References

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

• Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
• Johnson, David C. (1988), U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO), D-Day to V-E Day; Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

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