314th Air Refueling Squadron

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unit_name= 314th Air Refueling Squadron


caption= 314th Air Refueling Squadron Patch
dates= 1 November 1943 - 31 July 1946
27 June 1949 - 2 April 1951
13 June 1952 - Present
country= United States
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type= Aerial refueling
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The 314th Air Refueling Squadron (314 ARS) is part of the 940th Air Refueling Wing at Beale Air Force Base, California. It operates the KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft conducting aerial refueling missions.

Mission

History

The 314th flew aerial transportation in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. Except for brief period as a fighter-bomber squadron, it trained for and performed troop carrier and airlift missions between 1949 and 1951 and from 1957-1976. THe squadron has performed air refueling missions worldwide since 1977 and maintained an alert responsibility for Strategic Air Command until the command's deactivation in September 1991. It deployed aircraft and personnel to Saudia Arabia and European locations in support of the Gulf War and later contingency operations in Somalia and the Balkans. [http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10656 AFHRA 314 ARS Page] ]

=Operations=

*World War II
*Operation Desert Storm

=Lineage=

*314th Troop Carrier Squadron (1943 - 1949)
*314th Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium (1949 - 1952)
*314th Fighter-Bomber Squadron (1952 - 1957)
*314th Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium (1957 - 1965)
*314th Troop Carrier Squadron, Heavy (1965)
*314th Air Transport Squadron, Heavy (1965 - 1966)
*314th Military Airlift Squadron (1966 - 1972)
*314th Tactical Airlift Squadron (1972 - 1977)
*314th Air Refueling Squadron, Heavy (1977 - 1992)
*314th Air Refueling Squadron (1992 - Present)

=Assignments=

*349th Troop Carrier Group (1943 - 1946, 1949 - 1951)
*349th Troop Carrier Wing (1952 - 1963)
*940th Air Refueling Wing (1963 - Present)

=Bases stationed=

*Sedalia Army Airfield, Missouri (1943 – 1944)
*Alliance Army Airfield, Nebraska (1944)
*Pope Field, North Carolina (1944 – 1945)
*Baer Field, Indiana (1945)
*RAF Barkston Heath, England (1945)
*Roye Field, France (1945)
*Bergstrom Army Airfield, Texas (1945 – 1946)
*Hamilton Air Force Base, California (1949 – 1951, 1942 - 1955)
*McClellan Air Force Base, California (1955 - 1977)
*Mather Air Force Base, California (1977 - 1993)
*McClellan Air Force Base, California (1993 - 1997)
*Beale Air Force Base, California (1997 - Present)

=Aircraft Operated=

*C-53 Skytrooper (1943 – 1944)
*C-47 Skytrain (1943 – 1944, 1945 - 1946)
*C-46 Commando (1944 – 1946, 1949 - 1951, 1952 - 1958)
*CG-4 Haig (1944 – c. 1946)
*C-109 Liberator Express (1945)
*T-6 Texan (1949 – 1950, 1952 - 1954)
*T-7 Navigator (1949 – 1951)
*T-11 Kansan (1949 – 1951)
*T-28 Trojan (1953 - 1956)
*C-119 Flying Boxcar (1958 – 1965)
*C-124 Globemaster II (1965 – 1972)
*KC-135 Stratotanker (1976 - Present)

References

Notes

Bibliography

* [http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10656 AFHRA 314th Air Refueling Squadron History]
* [http://www.940arw.afrc.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3647 314th Air Refueling Squadron Fact Sheet]

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