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312 AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS OF WORLD WAR I1Ninth AF. Prepared for the invasion ofthe Continent and began operations bydropping paratroops of IoIst Airborne Divisionin Normandy on 6 Jun 1944 andreleasing gliders with reinforcements onthe following day, receiving a DUC anda French citation for these missions. Afterthe Normandy invasion the group ferriedsupplies in the United Kingdom untilthe air echelon was sent to Italy in Jul totransport cargo to Rome and evacuatewounded personnel. The detachmentdropped paratroops of 517th ParachuteInfantry Regiment along the Riviera toaid the invasion of Southern France on15 Aug 1944 and later towed gliders toprovide reinforcements; for these missionsthe group was again cited by the Frenchgovernment. After the air echelon returnedto England on 25 Aug, the groupresumed its cargo missions. In Sep thegroup moved to France for further operationsin support of the advancing Allies.Dropped paratroops of 82d Airborne Divisionnear Nijmegen and towed gliderscarrying reinforcements during the airborneattack on Holland, 17-25 Sep 1944.Participated in the Battle of the Bulge byreleasing gliders with supplies for IoIstAirborne Division near Bastogne on 27Dec 1944. Each aircraft of the grouptowed two gliders with troops of 17thAirborne Division and released them nearWesel when the Allies made the air assaultacross the Rhine on q Mar 1945.Continually hauled food, clothing, medicine,gasoline, ordnance equipment, andother supplies to the front lines and evacuatedpatients to rear-zone hospitals whennot engaged in airborne operations. Convertedfrom C-47's to C-46's, which wereused to transport displaced persons fromGermany to France and Belgium afterV-E Day. Returned to the US, Jul-Sep1945. Trained with G46 aircraft. Zn-activated on 10 Jun 1946.Redesigmted 439th Troop CarrierGroup (Medium). Allotted to the reserve.Activated on 27 Jun 1949. Orderedto active duty on I Apr ISI.Znactivated on 3 Apr 1951.Redesignated 439th Fighter-BomberGroup. Allotted to the reserve. Activatedon 15 Jun 1952.SQUADRONS. gist: 1943-1946; 1949-195' ; 1952-1954- g2d: 1943-1946; 1949-1951 ; 1952-1954. 93d: 1943-1946; 1949-1951; I952-. gqth: 1943-1946; 1949-1951.47ZSt.' I954-. 472d: I954-.STATIONS. Alliance AAFld, Neb, I Jun1943; Sedalia AAFld, Mo, 15 Jun 1943;Alliance AAFld, Neb, 2 Aug 1943; Laurinburg-MaxtonAAB, NC, 16 Dec 1943; Baer
AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS-GROUPS 313Field, Ind, 2-14 Feb 1944; Balderton, England,21 Feb 1944; Upottery, England, 26Apr 1944; Juvincourt, France, 8 Sep 1944;Lonray, France, 28 Sep 194; Chateaudun,France, 4 Nov 1944-11 Jul 1945; BaerField, Ind, Jul 1945; Sedalia AAFld, Mo,7 Oct 1945-10 Jun 1946. Selfridge AFB,Mich, 27 Jun 1949-3 Apr 1951. SelfridgeAFB, Mich, 15 Jun 1952-.&MAUNDERS. Lt Col Ralph L Zimmerman,I Jun 1943; Col Charles HYoung, 21 Jan 1944; Col Gordon L Edris,6 Oct 1945; Lt Col Lester C Messenger,16 Apr 1946; Lt Col William M MassengaleJr, 28 May-Io Jun 1946.CAMPAIGNS. American Theater; Rome-Arno; Normandy; Northern France;Southern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe.DECORATIONS. Distinguished Unit Citation:France, [67] Jun 1944. FrenchCroix de Guerre with Palm: [67] Jun1944; 15 Aug 1944. French Fourragere.INSIGNE. Shield: Azure, a beaver volantproper, holding a missile in his right paw,argent, markings gules and sable and supportedin the air with aircraft wings ofthe third, tanks of the fourth, on the rightwing the national aircraft marking in itsproper colors. (Approved 20 Apr 1956.)440th TROOP CARRIER GROUPConstituted as ~0th Troop CarrierGroup on 25 May 1943. Activated on IJUl1943. Prepared for duty overseas withC-47’s. Moved to England, Feb-Mar1944, and assigned to Ninth AF. Beganoperations by dropping paratroops of IorstAirborne Division near Carentan on theCotentin Peninsula on 6 Jun 1944 and bytransporting gasoline, ammunition, food,and other supplies to the same area on 7Tun, being awarded a DUC for completingthese missions during the invasion of Normandy.Began flying supply and evacuationmissions between England andFrance after the invasion of the Continent.In Jul 1944 part of the group was sent toItaly where it transported supplies toRome until Aug. The detachment alsoparticipated in the invasion of SouthernFrance, dropping paratroops of 517thParachute Infantry Regiment near Le Muyon 15 Aug 1944 and towing gliders carryingreinforcements to that area later in theday. Meanwhile, the group in Englandcontinued to haul cargo, and on 10 Aug1944 it dropped supplies to an infantrybattalion encircled at Mortain in northernFrance. The detachment returned toEngland on 25 Aug and the group moved
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APPENDIX 111:Air Force units, like
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