12th Troop Carrier Squadron

12th Troop Carrier Squadron
Active	1938-1961
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Type	Transport
Engagements	World War II

The 12th Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 322d Air Division stationed at Dreux-Louvilliers Air Base, France. It was inactivated on 8 January 1961.

History

Lineage

• Constituted as 12th Transport Squadron on 1 January 1938

Activated on December 1940

Redesignated 12th Troop Carrier Squadron on 5 July 1942

Inactivated on 31 July 1945

• Activated on 30 September 1946

Redesignated: 12th Troop Carrier Squadron (Medium) on 1 July 1948

Redesignated: 12th Troop Carrier Squadron (Heavy) on 5 November 1948

Redesignated: 12th Troop Carrier Squadron (Medium) on 16 November 1949

Discontinued, and inactivated, on 8 January 1961.

Assignments

• 60th Transport (later Troop Carrier) Group, 1 December 1940 – 31 July 1945
• 60th Troop Carrier Group, 30 September 1946
• 60th Troop Carrier Wing, 12 March 1957
• 322d Air Division, 25 September 1958 – 8 January 1961.

Stations

• Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania, 1 December 1940
• Mitchel Field, New York, 20 May 1941
• Westover Field, Massachusetts, 16 December 1941 – 20 May 1942
• RAF Chelveston, England, 10 June 1942
• RAF Aldermaston, England, 7 August 1942
• Tafaraoui Airfield, Algeria, 8 November 1942
• Relizane Airfield, Algeria, 30 November 1942
• Thiersville Airfield, Algeria, 20 May 1943
• El Diem Airfield, Tunisia, 29 June 1943
• Ponte Olivo Airfield, Sicily, 6 September 1943

Operated from Comiso Airfield, Sicily, 22 October-9 November 1943

• Gerbini Airfield, Sicily, 9 November 1943
• Brindisi Airfield, Italy, c. 29 March 1944

• Pomigliano Airfield, Italy, 7 October 1944–May 1945
• Waller Field, Trinidad, 4 June-31 July 1945
• Rhein-Main AB, Germany, 30 September 1946
• Neubiberg AB, Germany, i November 1946
• Tempelhof AB, Germany, 5 May 1947
• Rhein-Main AB, Germany, 20 January 1948
• Kaufbeuren AB, Germany, 17 April 1948
• Wiesbaden AB, Germany, 24 December 1948
• Rhein-Main AB Germany, 26 September 1949
• Wiesbaden AB, Germany (Later West Germany), 20 October 1949
• Rhein-Main AB, West Germany, 7 July 1950
• Dreux AB, France, 13 September 1955 – 8 January 1961

Aircraft

• C-47, 1942–1945; 1946–1948
• C-54, 1948–1949
• C-82, 1949–1953
• C-119, 1953–1960

Operations history

Included airborne invasions of North Africa, Sicily, and Greece; support of partisans in the Balkans; and transportation of personnel and equipment in MTO during World War II. Berlin Airlift.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

• Maurer, Maurer, ed (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556. http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/combat_sq_of_the_af_wwii.pdf.