50th Troop Carrier Wing, USAAF

50TH TROOP CARRIER WING, USAAF

History: Constituted as 50th Transport wing on 8 January 1941 and activated on 14 January. Transported personnel, supplies and materiel in the US, Alaska and the Caribbean. Assignet to the Air Transport Command (later I Troop Carrier Command) in April 1942. Redesignated 50th Troop Carrier Wing in July 1942. Functioned as a Training Organization. Moved overseas Sept-October 1943 and assigned to Ninth air Force. Operated in the European and Mediterranean Theathers until after the War. Transferred without personnel and equipment to the USA in September 1945. There remanned and re-equipped. Inactivated on 31 July 1946.

Official blazon

Insigne: On a blue diamond edged in gold, a transport aircraft with stylized wing surmounting a pile voided of the second, issuing from sinister and extending to dexter base.
Motto (Not shown): Nobis volandum est - I will be flown by us.

Origin/meaning

The Insigne was approved on 22 September 1942.

Literature:Image from Wikimedia Commons.