45th Airlift Squadron, US Air Force
45TH AIRLIFT SQUADRON, US AIR FORCE
History: Constituted as 45 Transport Squadron on 30 May 1942. Activated on 15 Jun 1942. Redesignated as 45 Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 Jul 1942. Inactivated on 26 Dec 1945. Redesignated as 45 Airlift Flight on 1 Apr 1993. Activated on 1 May 1993. Inactivated on 1 Oct 1993. Redesignated as 45 Airlift Squadron on 21 Mar 1994. Activated on 1 Jul 1994. Redesignated as: 45 Airlift Flight on 1 Oct 1999; 45 Airlift Squadron on 9 Jul 2001.
Included airborne assaults on Sicily, Normandy, Holland, and Germany; aerial transportation of personnel (including casualties), supplies, and equipment in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) and European Theater of Operations (ETO), Nov 1942-Apr 1945. Trained pilots in operational support airlift mission, 1994-.
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The Emblem was approved 5 June 1995.
Literature: Image from Wikimedia Commons. Information from https://www.afhra.af.mil/
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