2 Airlift Squadron
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Unit
Insignia
- Description:
Upon a disc per bend indented Or and Azure, a Brown
spear in fesse, headed Gold, winged Gules. Approved on 5
May 1942.
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Lineage
Constituted 2d Provisional
Transport Squadron on 1 Mar 1935. Redesignated 2d Transport
Squadron, and activated, on 28 Jun 1935. Redesignated 2d Troop
Carrier Squadron on 4 Jul 1942. Inactivated on 24 Dec 1945.
Redesignated 2d Airlift Squadron, and activated, on 1 Jun 1992.
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Assignments
Middletown Air Depot, PA, 28
Jun 1935; 10th Transport (later, 10th Troop Carrier) Group, 20
May 1937; Tenth Air Force, c. 17 Feb 1943 (attached to
India-China Wing, Air Transport Command, 9 Mar–1 Jul 1943);
Assam Air Base Command, c. 1 Jul 1943 (attached to Troop Carrier
Command, Eastern Air Command, 20 Dec 1943–6 Mar 1944); 443d
Troop Carrier Group, 6 Mar 1944–24 Dec 1945. 23d Operations
Group, 1 Jun 1992–.
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Stations
Olmsted Field, PA, 28 Jun
1935; Stout Field, IN, 21 May 1942; Kellogg Field, MI, 1 Jul
1942; Bowman Field, KY, 4 Aug 1942; Pope Field, NC, 1 Oct 1942–23
Jan 1943; Yangkai, China, 17 Feb 1943; Dinjan, India, 1 Jul
1943; Shingbwiyang, Burma, 14 Aug 1944; Dinjan, India, 1 Jun
1945; Chihkiang, China, 24 Aug 1945; Hankow, China, 25 Sep–21
Nov 1945; Camp Anza, CA, 23–24 Dec 1945. Pope AFB, NC, 1
Jun 1992–.
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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–.
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Operations
Trained transport pilots, 21
May–1 Oct 1942; airborne assault on Myitkyina, Burma, 17
May 1944; aerial transportation in CBI, 25 Feb 1943–c. Aug
1945; airlift of Chinese troops to eastern China for disarmament
operations, Sep–Nov 1945. Airlift for airborne troops, 1
Jun 1992–.
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Service Streamers
World War II American
Theater.
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Campaign Streamers
World War II: India-Burma
with Arrowhead; China Defensive; Central Burma; China Offensive.
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Armed Forces Expeditionary
Streamers
None
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Decorations
Distinguished Unit Citations:
China, Burma, and India, [25 Feb]–31 Dec 1943; Burma, 1–29
Feb 1944; China, 5–30 Sep 1945.
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