4 Airlift Squadron
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Unit
Insignia
- Description:
Upon a Light Blue disc edged in Black and issuant from
White clouds detailed blue in base a Brown winged Army
mule with provoked expression carrying a Green box
strapped on its back. Approved on 17 Sep 1942.
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Lineage
Constituted 4th Provisional
Transport Squadron on 1 Mar 1935. Redesignated 4th Transport
Squadron on 25 Jun 1935. Activated on 8 Jul 1935. Redesignated
4th Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 Jul 1942. Inactivated on 13 Dec
1945. Activated on 7 Sep 1946. Redesignated: 4th Troop Carrier
Squadron, Medium, on 23 Jun 1948; 4th Troop Carrier Squadron,
Heavy, on 12 Oct 1949; 4th Air Transport Squadron, Heavy, on 8
Jul 1962; 4th Military Airlift Squadron on 8 Jan 1966; 4th
Airlift Squadron on 1 Dec 1991.
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Assignments
Rockwell Air Depot, 8 Jul
1935; 10th Transport Group, 20 May 1937; 62d Transport (later,
62d Troop Carrier) Group, 10 May 1941–14 Nov 1945 (attached
to 64th Troop Carrier Group, 3 Apr–19 Jun 1944); unkn, 14
Nov–13 Dec 1945. 62d Troop Carrier Group, 7 Sep 1946
(attached to various elements of FEAF for operations during
period 1 Dec 1950–16 Nov 1951); 62d Troop Carrier (later,
62d Air Transport; 62d Military Airlift) Wing, 15 Jan 1960; 62d
Operations Group, 1 Dec 1991–.
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Stations
Rockwell Field, CA, 8 Jul
1935; Sacramento, CA, 1 Dec 1938; Kellogg Field, MI, 29 May
1942; Florence, SC, 1 Jul–14 Aug 1942; Keevil, England, 25
Sep 1942; Tafaraoui, Algeria, 15 Nov 1942; Casablanca, French
Morocco, 16 Dec 1942; Nouvion, Algeria, 29 Mar 1943; Matemore,
Algeria, 18 May 1943; Goubrine, Tunisia, 25 Jun 1943; Gela,
Sicily, 7 Sep 1943; Catania, Sicily, 18 Oct 1943; Ponte Olivo,
Sicily, 27 Feb 1944 (operated from bases in India, 12 Apr–11
Jun 1944); Gaudo Airfield, Italy, 8 May 1944; Galera Airfield,
Italy, 29 Jun 1944; Malignano Airfield, Italy, 3 Oct 1944;
Tarquinia, Italy, 9 Jan 1945; Rosignano Airfield, Italy, 26 May
1945; Marcianise, Italy, 28 Sep 1945; Naples, Italy, c. Oct–13
Dec 1945. Bergstrom Field, TX, 7 Sep 1946; McChord Field (later
AFB), WA, 20 Jul 1947–28 Nov 1950; Ashiya AB, Japan, 1 Dec
1950; Tachikawa AB, Japan, 25 Jul 1951–16 Nov 1951; McChord
AFB, WA, 16 Nov 1951; Larson AFB, WA, 11 May 1952; McChord AFB,
WA, 13 Jun 1960–.
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Aircraft
C–27, 1935–1937; C–33,
1936–1941; C–39, 1938–1942; C–47, 1942–1945.
C–46, 1946–1947; C–82, 1947–1949; C–54,
1949–1951; C–124, 1951–1969; C–141, 1966–.
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Operations
World War II: Included
airborne assaults on Sicily, on Myitkyina, Burma, and on
Southern France; support of partisans in Northern Italy and the
Balkans; aerial transportation in MTO and, briefly, in CBI.
Korea: Aerial transportation from US to Japan, and subsequently
between Japan and Korea in the period 1 Dec 1950–16 Nov
1951. Airdrop of heavy equipment and personnel during the
invasion of Panama on 20 Dec 1989.
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Campaign Streamers
World War II: Tunisia;
Sicliy; Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno; Southern France; North
Apennines; Po Valley; Air Combat, EAME Theater; India-Burma with
Arrowhead. Korea: Chinese Communist Forces Intervention; First
UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall
Offensive.
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Armed Forces Expeditionary
Streamers
Panama, 1989–1990.
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Decorations
Distinguished Unit Citation:
China-Burma-India Theater, 7 Apr–15 Jun 1944. Air Force
Outstanding Unit Awards: 19 Apr–5 May 1954; 1 Jan 1961–1
Nov
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