316th Troop Carrier Squadron

316th Troop Carrier Squadron
Active	1943-1949
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force

Last updated March 05, 2019

The 316th Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force. Its last assignment was with the 436th Troop Carrier Group, stationed at Godman Field, Kentucky. It was inactivated on 27 June 1949.

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Overview

The unit was active during World War II and the immediate postwar years. Its mission was aerial transportation in the Hawaiian Islands and to forward bases in the Pacific. It later was active in the Air Force Reserve.

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History

Lineage

Constituted 316th Troop Carrier Squadron on 7 December 1943

Activated on 15 December 1943

Inactivated on 25 March 1946

Activated in the reserve on 15 March 1947

Inactivated on 27 June 1949.

Assignments

I Troop Carrier Command, 15 December 1943

Attached to: 61st Troop Carrier Wing, 15 December 1943

Attached to: 1st Provisional Troop Carrier Group, February-30 September 1944

VI Air Service Area Command, 4 November 1944
Seventh Air Force, 22 July 1945
Eighth Air Force, 1 September 1945
54th Troop Carrier Wing, 15 February-25 March 1946
436th Troop Carrier Group, 15 March 1947 – 27 June 1949.

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Stations

Sedalia Army Air Field, Missouri, 15 December 1943
Alliance Army Air Field, Nebraska 25 January 1944
Camp Mackall, North Carolina, to March-30 September 1944
Kahuku AAB, Hawaii (Territory), 4 November 1944
Bellows Field, Hawaii (Territory), 16 February 1945
Kadena Airfield, Okinawa, 22 August 1945 – 25 March 1946
Godman Field, Kentucky, 15 March 1947 – 27 June 1949.

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Aircraft

C-47 Skytrain, 1944–1945
C-46 Commando, 1945-1946.

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References

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/ .

The Air Force Historical Research Agency is the repository for United States Air Force historical documents. The Agency's collection, begun during World War II in Washington, D.C. and moved in 1949 to Maxwell Air Force Base, the site of Air University, to provide research facilities for professional military education students, the faculty, visiting scholars, and the general public.

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