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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 ...
In December 1953, the 435th Troop Carrier Wing at Miami was released from active duty and assumed the mission, personnel and equipment of the 482d Wing. In this reorganization, the 435th Troop Carrier Group took over the mission, personnel and aircraft of the 482d, which was inactivated. [16] [note 4]
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 ...
3d Troop Carrier Squadron; 6th Air Refueling Squadron; 9th Combat Operations Squadron; 21st Reconnaissance Squadron, Photographic; 46th Bomb Squadron; 50th Fighter-Interceptor Group; 50th Fighter-Bomber Squadron; 55th Troop Carrier Squadron; 77th Air Refueling Squadron; 87th Troop Carrier Group; 87th Troop Carrier Wing; 89th Airlift Squadron ...
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 442d was a group of Ninth Air Force's 50th Troop Carrier Wing, IX Troop Carrier Command. The Douglas C-47/C-53 Skytrains of the group did not move in until 12/13 June although elements of the group had visited RAF Weston Zoyland during the preceding weeks. With 50 C-47s on the airfield, there was a shortage of aircraft standings and, while ...
50th Troop Carrier Wing (C-47 Skytrain) 439th Troop Carrier Group 440th Troop Carrier Group 441st Troop Carrier Group 442d Troop Carrier Group 51st Troop Carrier Wing (C-47 Skytrain) 60th Troop Carrier Group 62nd Troop Carrier Group 64th Troop Carrier Group 53rd Troop Carrier Wing (C-47 Skytrain) 435th Troop Carrier Group 436th Troop Carrier Group
World War II emblem of the 48th Fighter Group. On 15 January 1941, the United States Army Air Corps activated the 48th Bombardment Group (Light) at Hunter Field, Savannah, Georgia, comprising the 55th, 56th, and 57th Bombardment Squadrons (Light) and the 9th Reconnaissance Squadron (Light).