2d Airlift Squadron

2nd Airlift Squadron
Emblem
Country	United States of America
Branch	United States Air Force
Part of	43d Airlift Wing, Air Mobility Command
Nickname(s)	Lancers
Decorations	DCU

The 2nd Airlift Squadron (2 AS) of the United States Air Force is an airlift squadron operating from Pope Air Force Base, Fayetteville, North Carolina. They operate C-130 Hercules aircraft. The squadron is part of the 43d Airlift Wing of the Air Mobility Command.

The squadron trained transport pilots, 21 May-1 October 1942; transported troops and airdropped them during the airborne assault on Myitkyina, Burma, 17 May 1944; aerial transportation in China-Burma-India theater, 25 February 1943-c. August 1945; airlift of Chinese troops to eastern China for disarmament operations, September-November 1945. Airlift for airborne troops, 1 June 1992–present.

Today the squadron flies C-130H2 Hercules' transport aircraft on airlift missions and shares these aircraft in an association with the Air Force Reserve Command's 440th Airlift Wing. After being moved to Pope in the 2005 BRAC, the 440th became the first Air Force Reserve Wing to have an active duty associate squadron.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Mission

Provide the Department of Defense with highly trained, highly motivated, combat-ready aircrews who execute the best tactical airlift/airdrop operations in the United States Air Force.^[4]

History

Lineage

Constituted 2d Provisional Transport Squadron on 1 March 1935

Redesignated 2d Transport Squadron, and activated, on 28 June 1935

Redesignated 2d Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 July 1942

Inactivated on 24 December 1945

Redesignated 2d Airlift Squadron, and activated, on 1 June 1992.

Assignments

Middletown Air Depot, Pennsylvania, 28 June 1935
10th Transport (later, 10th Troop Carrier) Group, 20 May 1937
Tenth Air Force, c. 17 February 1943

Attached to India-China Wing, Air Transport Command, 9 March-1 July 1943

Assam Air Base Command, c. 1 July 1943

Attached to Troop Carrier Command, Eastern Air Command, 20 December 1943-6 March 1944

443d Troop Carrier Group, 6 March 1944-24 December 1945
23d Operations Group, 1 June 1992-1 April 1997
43d Airlift Wing, 1 April 1997–present

Stations

Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania, 28 June 1935
Stout Field, Indiana, 21 May 1942
Kellogg Field, Michigan, 1 July 1942
Bowman Field, Kentucky, 4 August 1942
Pope Field, North Carolina, 1 October 1942-23 January 1943
Yangkai, China, 17 February 1943
Dinjan, India, 1 July 1943
Shingbwiyang, Burma, 14 August 1944
Dinjan, India, 1 June 1945
Chihkiang, China, 24 August 1945
Hankow, China, 25 September-21 November 1945
Camp Anza, California, 23–24 December 1945
Pope AFB, North Carolina, 1 June 1992–present

Aircraft

C-27, 1935–1937
C-33, 1936–1939
Including C-39 and various civilian and military modifications of DC-3 during period 1939-1941
C-47, 1942–1945
C-46, 1945
C-130, 1992–present

Notes

This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

External links

"Air Force Mobility Command". Archived from the original on 20 August 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-18.

United States Air Force

Leadership

Structure

Commands	Reserve Air National Guard Field Operating Agencies Installations

Direct Reporting Units	District of Washington Operational Test and Evaluation Center USAF Academy

Major Commands	Air Combat Air Education and Training Air Mobility Global Strike Materiel Reserve Space Special Operations Europe & Africa Pacific

Numbered Air Forces	First Second Third Fourth Fifth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Seventeenth Eighteenth Nineteenth Twentieth Twenty-Second Twenty-Third Twenty-Fourth Twenty-Fifth

Wings (ANG) Groups (ANG) Squadrons (ANG) Civilian auxiliary: Civil Air Patrol

Personnel and
training

Uniforms and
equipment

History and
traditions

Category
Portal

USAAF Tenth Air Force in World War II

Airfields

Burma	Bhamo Myitkyina Namponmao Sahmaw Tingkawk Sakan

India	Agartala Asansol Barrackpore Chakulia Chittagong Dinjan Dohazari Dudhkundi Dum Dum Fenny Guskhara Hailakandi Hathazari Kalaikunda Karachi Ledo Nagaghuli Nawadih Pandaveswar Panagarh Piardoba Sookerating Sylhet Tezgaon Tezpur Tulihal

Units

Groups

Air Commando	1st Air Commando 2d Air Commando

Bombardment	7th Bombardment 12th Bombardment 341st Bombardment

Combat Cargo	1st Combat Cargo 3d Combat Cargo 4th Combat Cargo

Fighter	23d Fighter 33d Fighter 51st Fighter 80th Fighter 81st Fighter 311th Fighter

Reconnaissance	8th Reconnaissance

Troop Carrier	443d Troop Carrier

Squadrons

United States Army Air Forces

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