310th Airlift Squadron

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 310th Airlift Squadron


caption= 310th Airlift Squadron Patch
dates= 25 May 1943 - 31 July 1945
27 June 1949 - 1 February 1953
8 February 1955 - 7 September 1956
24 May 1963 - 15 November 1972
1 December 1984 - 31 March 1999
1 January 2001 - Present
country= United States
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branch=United States Air Force
type= Airlift
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command_structure= Air Mobility Command
18th Air Force
6th Air Mobility Wing
6th Operations Group
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garrison= MacDill Air Force Base
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battles= Operation Overlord
Operation Market Garden
Operation Plunder
Battle of Khe Sanh
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decorations= Distinguished Unit Citation
Presidential Unit Citation
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm
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The 310th Airlift Squadron (310 AS) is part of the 6th Air Mobility Wing at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. It operates C-37 aircraft providing executive airlfit for Combatant Commanders.

Mission

Provide Safe, Comfortable, and Reliable Worldwide Airlift for our Nation’s CONUS Based Unified Combatant Commanders.

History

The 310th participated in airborne assaults on Normandy, Holland, and Germany, as well as aerial transportation throughout the European Theater of Operations, during World War II.

It provided helicopter support for atomic weapons tests on Bikini in the Eniwetok Atoll, February-June 1956.

During the Vietnam War the 310th conducted airdrop and airlift to combat forces in Southeast Asia. It also took part in vegetation destruction and malaria control flights from August 1970-June 1972.

The squadron flew airlift missions in South and Central America from 1985-1999, including support for the invasion of Panama, December 1989-January 1990.

Operations

*World War II
*Vietnam War
*Operation Just Cause

Lineage

*310th Troop Carrier Squadron (1943 - 1949)
*310th Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium (1949 - 1954)
*310th Troop Carrier Squadron, Assault, Rotary Wing (1954 - 1963)
*310th Troop Carrier Squadron, Assault (1963 - 1965)
*310th Air Commando Squadron, Troop Carrier (1965 - 1967)
*310th Air Commando Squadron, Tactical Airlift (1967 - 1968)
*310th Special Operations Squadron (1968 - 1970)
*310th Tactical Airlift Squadron (1970 - 1984)
*310th Military Airlift Squadron (1984 - 1992)
*310th Airlift Squadron (1992 - Present)

Assignments

*443d Troop Carrier Group (1943 – 1944)
*I Troop Carrier Command (1944)
*8th Air Force (1944)
*315th Troop Carrier Group (1944 – 1945)
*443d Troop Carrier Group (1949 – 1953)
*8th Air Force (1954 – 1956)
**Attacehed: 63d Troop Carrier Wing (1954 – 1956)
*Pacific Air Forces (1963)
*315th Tactical Airlift Wing (1963 - 1972)
*377th Air Base Wing (1972)
*61st Military Airlift Group (1984 - 1992)
*24th Wing (1992 - 1997)
*21st Air Force (1997 - 1999)
*6th Air Mobility Wing (2001 - Present)

Bases stationed

*Sedalia Army Air Field, Missouri (1943 – 1944)
*Alliance Army Air Field, Nebraska (1944)
*Camp Mackall, North Carolina (1944)
*RAF Spanhoe, England (1944 - 1945)
*Amiens, France (1945)
*Waller Field, Trinidad (1945)
*Hensley Field, Texas (1949 - 1951)
*Donaldson Air Force Base, South Carolina (1951 - 1953, 1954 - 1956)
*Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina (1963)
*Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam (1963 - 1965)
*Nha Trang Air Base, South Vietnam (1965 - 1967)
*Phan Rang Air Base, South Vietnam (1967 - 1972)
*Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam (1972)
*Howard Air Force Base, Panama (1984 - 1999)
*MacDill Air Force Base, Florida (2002 - Present)

Aircraft operated

*C-47 Skytrain (1943 – 1945)
*C-46 Commando (1949 – 1952)
*C-119 Flying Boxcar (1952 – 1953)
*H-19 Chickasaw (1955 – 1956)
*C/UC-123 Provider (1963 – 1972)
*C-7 Caribou (1972)
*C-22 (1985 – 1991)
*C-130 Hercules (1984 – 1996)
*C-21 (1989 – 1999)
*C-27 Spartan (1991 – 1999)
*CT-43 (1992 – 1997)
*C-37 (2002 – Present)

References

* [http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/rso/squadrons_flights_pages/0309as.asp USAF 309th Airlift Squadron History]
* [http://public.macdill.amc.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4238 6th Operations Group Fact Sheet]

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