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5th Troop Carrier Squadron

Field	Value
unit_name	5th Troop Carrier Squadron
image	Douglas C-33 (16139669022).jpg
image_size	300px
caption	Douglas C-33 as flown by the squadron
dates	1939–1944; 1947–1949
country
branch
role	Airlift
identification_symbol	[[File:5 Troop Carrier Sq emblem.png	165px]]
identification_symbol_label	5th Troop Carrier Squadron emblem (4 October 1943)

The 5th Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force squadron. Its last assignment was with Tenth Air Force at Selfridge Field, Michigan, where it was inactivated on 27 June 1949.

The squadron served as a training unit during the Second World War until it was disbanded in a general reorganization of Army Air Forces training units. It was reactivated briefly after the war in the United States Air Force Reserve.

History

The squadron was an operational training unit prior to December 1942. It then served as a replacement training for glider crews. It also provided training for army airborne units, and ferried gliders from 1943 until disbanded in 1944.

The squadron was again activated in the reserve in 1947, but does not appear to have been fully manned or equipped before inactivating in 1949.

Lineage

Constituted as the 5th Transport Squadronon 1 October 1933
Constituted on 1 October 1939 : Activated on 14 October 1939 : Redesignated 5th Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 July 1942 : Disbanded on 14 April 1944
Reconstituted on 25 August 1947 : Activated in the reserve on 15 September 1947 : Inactivated on 27 June 1949

Assignments

10th Transport Group (later 10th Troop Carrier Group), 14 October 1939 – 14 April 1944 (attached to 314th Troop Carrier Group, 22 February-8 April 1943)
Second Air Force, 15 September 1947
Tenth Air Force, 1 July 1948
First Air Force, 15 August 1948
433d Troop Carrier Group, 28 October 1948
Tenth Air Force, 28 March-27 June 1949

Stations

Patterson Field, Ohio, 14 October 1939
General Billy Mitchell Field, Wisconsin, 25 May 1942
Pope Field, North Carolina, 4 October 1942
Lawson Field, Georgia, 2 December 1942
Grenada Army Air Field, Mississippi, 26 January 1944
Alliance Army Air Field, Nebraska, c. 12 March-14 April 1944
Selfridge Field, Michigan, 15 September 1947 – 27 June 1949

Aircraft

Douglas C-33, 1939-1942
Douglas C-39, 1939-1942
Douglas C-47 Skytrain, 1941–1944
Douglas C-53 Skytrooper, 1943–1944
Aeronca L-3 Grasshopper, 1943
Piper L-4 Grasshopper, 1943

References

Notes

Bibliography

References

Maurer, ''Combat Squadrons'', p. 37
Clay?

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