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48th Air Transport Squadron

Field	Value
unit_name	48th Air Transport Squadron
image	C-124A over Hawaii about 1957.jpg
image_size	290
caption	C-124 Globemaster II over Hawaii about 1957
dates	1942-1943; 1952-1965
country
branch
role	Airlift
command_structure	Military Air Transport Service
motto	Forever Forward
identification_symbol	[[File:48th Air Transport Squadron - MATS - Emblem.png	165px]]
identification_symbol_label	Patch with 48th Air Transport Squadron emblem

The 48th Air Transport Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last was assigned to the 1502d Air Transport Wing, Military Air Transport Service, stationed at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. It was inactivated on 25 June 1965.

History

The squadron was first organized during World War II as a ferrying squadron in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.

Reestablished as the 48th Air Transport Squadron in 1952 to replace the 1264th Air Transport Squadron, which had been organized in 1948 as the 2d Air Transport Squadron, a Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport squadron. That squadron was redesignated on 1 October 1948 to comply with the requirement that Table of Distribution units be numbered with four digits.

Upgraded to Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter and Douglas C-124 Globemaster II long distance intercontinental transports. Flew over MATS Pacific routes from Hawaii until inactivated in 1965 with the phaseout of the C-124.

Lineage

Constituted as the 48th Ferrying Squadron : Activated c. 9 July 1942 : Redesignated 48th Transport Squadron c. 29 March 1943
Disbanded on 20 September 1943
Reconstituted as the 48th Air Transport Squadron, Heavy on 20 June 1952 : Activated on 20 July 1952
Redesignated 48th Air Transport Squadron, Medium on 1 April 1960 : Discontinued and inactivated on 25 June 1965

Assignments

14th Ferrying Group, c. 9 July 1942 – 20 September 1943
1500th Air Transport Group (later 1502d Air Transport Group), 20 July 1952
1502d Air Transport Wing, 1 May 1958 - 20 Jul 1952

Stations

Bathurst, Gambia, c. 9 July 1942
Marrakech, French Morocco, c. February 1943 – 20 September 1943
Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, 20 July 1952 - 25 June 1965

Aircraft

Douglas C-54 Skymaster, 1948–1949
Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter, 1949–1956
Douglas C-118, 1956–1965
Douglas C-124 Globemaster, 1955-1965

References

Notes

Bibliography

References

Mueller, p. 235

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