2nd Airlift Squadron

2nd Airlift Squadron
2nd Airlift Squadron
	Emblem
Active	1935–1945; 1992–2016
Country	United States of America
Branch	United States Air Force
Part of	43d Airlift Wing, Air Mobility Command
Nickname(s)	Lancers
Decorations	DCU

The 2nd Airlift Squadron (2 AS) of the United States Air Force is an inactive airlift squadron that last operated from Pope Field, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina. They operated C-130 Hercules aircraft. The squadron was last part of the 43d Airlift Group of Air Mobility Command.

The squadron trained transport pilots, 21 May-1 October 1942; transported troops and airdropped them during the airborne assault on Myitkyina, Burma, 17 May 1944; aerial transportation in China-Burma-India theater, 25 February 1943-c. August 1945; airlift of Chinese troops to eastern China for disarmament operations, September-November 1945. Airlift for airborne troops, 1 June 1992–2015.

The squadron flew C-130H2 Hercules transport aircraft on airlift missions and shared these aircraft in an association with the Air Force Reserve Command's 440th Airlift Wing. After being moved to Pope in the 2005 BRAC, the 440th became the first Air Force Reserve Wing to have an active duty associate squadron.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Mission

Provide the Department of Defense with highly trained, highly motivated, combat-ready aircrews who execute the best tactical airlift/airdrop operations in the United States Air Force.^[4]

History

Lineage

Constituted 2d Provisional Transport Squadron on 1 March 1935

Redesignated 2d Transport Squadron, and activated, on 28 June 1935

Redesignated 2d Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 July 1942

Inactivated on 24 December 1945

Redesignated 2d Airlift Squadron, and activated, on 1 June 1992.

Inactivated on 14 June 2016^[5]

Assignments

Middletown Air Depot, Pennsylvania, 28 June 1935
10th Transport (later, 10th Troop Carrier) Group, 20 May 1937
Tenth Air Force, c. 17 February 1943

Attached to India-China Wing, Air Transport Command, 9 March-1 July 1943

Assam Air Base Command, c. 1 July 1943

Attached to Troop Carrier Command, Eastern Air Command, 20 December 1943-6 March 1944

443d Troop Carrier Group, 6 March 1944-24 December 1945
23d Operations Group, 1 June 1992-1 April 1997
43d Airlift Wing, 1 April 1997–1 March 2011
43d Airlift Group, 1 March 2011-14 June 2016

Stations

Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania, 28 June 1935
Stout Field, Indiana, 21 May 1942
Kellogg Field, Michigan, 1 July 1942
Bowman Field, Kentucky, 4 August 1942
Pope Field, North Carolina, 1 October 1942-23 January 1943
Yangkai, China, 17 February 1943
Dinjan, India, 1 July 1943
Shingbwiyang, Burma, 14 August 1944
Dinjan, India, 1 June 1945
Chihkiang, China, 24 August 1945
Hankow, China, 25 September-21 November 1945
Camp Anza, California, 23–24 December 1945
Pope AFB, North Carolina, 1 June 1992–14 June 2016

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, 1992–2015

Notes

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-03. Retrieved 2012-07-30. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ http://www.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123023512
^ http://www.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123056630
^ *"43d Operations Group". Retrieved 2006-08-18.
^ Barnes, Marc. "AMC unit at Pope Army Airfield is renamed". Air Mobility Command. USAF. Retrieved 24 June 2016.

External links

"Air Force Mobility Command". Archived from the original on 20 August 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-18. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-03. Retrieved 2012-07-30. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] ttp://www.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123023512

[3] ttp://www.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123056630

[4] *"43d Operations Group". Retrieved 2006-08-18.

[5] Barnes, Marc. "AMC unit at Pope Army Airfield is renamed". Air Mobility Command. USAF. Retrieved 24 June 2016.

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