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The 482 TCW replaced the 906th Reserve Training Wing, which had been activated following the mobilization of the 435th Troop Carrier Wing (435 TCW) for the Korean War, as Air Force Reserve flying operations resumed under the supervision of the 2585th Air Force Reserve Training Center. In December, the 435 TCW was released from active duty and ...
The 482d Operations Group is a United States Air Force Reserve unit assigned to the 482d Fighter Wing.It is stationed at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida.. During World War II, the group was activated in England as the 482d Bombardment Group (Pathfinder), the only Eighth Air Force radar-equipped pathfinder heavy bomber group.
The 93d Fighter Squadron, nicknamed the Makos, is part of the Air Force Reserve Command's 482d Fighter Wing at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida.Originally formed in June 1943 as the 93d Troop Carrier Squadron, the squadron participated on the Western Front flying Douglas C-47 Skytrains dropping paratroopers and releasing gliders during Operation Overlord, Operation Market Garden and the ...
The 512th Troop Carrier Wing (512 TCW), an AFRES unit operationally gained by TAC and based at NAS Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, was also called to active service and forward deployed to Homestead AFB with its C-119 aircraft, augmenting the 435 TCW for possible air drop of U.S. Army personnel into Cuba incipient to a ground invasion of the island ...
Deployed to England, being assigned to IX Troop Carrier Command in early January 1944, during the Allied buildup prior to the invasion of France. The squadron participated in the D-Day operation, dropping 101st Airborne Division paratroops near Cherbourg Naval Base , then carried out re-supply and glider delivery missions the following day.
Established in early 1943 as a C-47 Skytrain transport squadron under First Air Force, later trained under I Troop Carrier Command in the eastern United States. Deployed to England in late 1943, being assigned to Ninth Air Force in England, IX Troop Carrier Command to participate in the buildup of forces prior to the Allied landings in France during D-Day in June 1944.
The unit's World War II predecessor unit, the 440th Troop Carrier Group was a C-47 Skytrain transport unit assigned to Ninth Air Force in Western Europe.
In 1952, the squadron was redesignated as the 536th Troop Carrier Squadron, and activated at Atterbury Air Force Base to replace elements of the 923d Reserve Training Wing. The following year the squadron was inactivated and replaced at Atterbury by the 72d Troop Carrier Squadron .