5th Troop Carrier Squadron

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.^[1]

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.^[1]

• Constituted as the 5th Transport Squadronon 1 October 1933^[2]
• 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^[1]

• 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^[1]

• 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^[1]

• 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^[1]

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

• Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961]. Air Force Combat Units of World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-02-1. LCCN 61060979. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
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