Air Force Combat Units of WWII

394 AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS OF WORLD WAR I1/A\Transported personnel, supplies, and materielin the US, Alaska, and the Caribbeanarea. Assigned to Air TransportCommand (later I Troop Carrier Command)in Apr 1942. Redesignated 50thTroop Carrier Wing in Jul 1942. Functionedas a training organization. Movedoverseas, Sep-Oct 1943, and assigned toNinth AF. Operated in the European andMediterranean theaters until after the war.Transferred, without personnel and equipment, to the US in Sep 1945. Remannedand re-equipped. Znactivated on 31 Jul1946.GROUPS. 439th : 194-1945. 40th :1944-1945. #zSt: 194-1945. wd: 1944-1945. (Numerous other groups assignedfor training or operations, 1941-1944.)STATIONS. Wright Field, Ohio, 14 Jan1941; Camp Williams, Wis, 25 May 1942;Knobnoster, Mo, g Sep 1942; Camp Mackall,NC, 27 Apr 1943; Pope Field, NC, 28Jul-29 Sep 1943; Cottesmore, England, 17Oct 1943; Bottesford, England, 18 Nov1943; Exeter, England, 26 Apr-1 Oct 1944;Le Mans, France, I Oct 194; Chartres,France, 3 Nov 1944-29 Sep 1945; PopeField, NC, 29 Sep 1945-31 Jul 1946.COMMANDERS. Lt Col Fred S Borum, 14Jan 1941; Lt Col P R Love, 8 Dec 1941;Col Harold L Clark, 29 May 1942; Lt ColJulian M Chappell, 2 Nov 1942; Col P RLove, 20 Nov 1942; Brig Gen Julian MChappell, 4 Apr 1943-31 Jul 1946.CAMPAIGNS. American Theater ; Rome-Arno; Normandy; Northern France;Southern France; Rhineland ; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe.DECORATIONS. None.INSIGNE. Shielk On a blue diamondedged in gold, a transport aircraft withstylized wing surmounting a pile voidedof the second, issuing from sinister and extendingto dexter base. Motto: NOBISVOLANDUM EST-It will be flown byus. (Approved 22 Sep 1942.)5 1st TROOP CARRIER WINGConstituted as 51st Transport Wing on30 May 1942. Activated on I Tun 1942.Redesignated 51st Troop Carrier Wing inJul 1942. Arrived in England in Sep 1942and trained for the, invasion of NorthAfrica. Operated with Twelfth AF inNorth Africa and the Mediterranean areafrom Nov 1942 to May 1945. Moved toGermany in Sep 1945. Assigned to UnitedStates Air Forces in Europe. Znactivatedin Germany on 5 Jan 1948.GROUPS. 60th: 1942-1945, 1946-1947.6zst: 1942, 1946-1947. 62d: 1942-1945.