The 300th Airlift Squadron is part of the 315th Airlift Wing at Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina. It operates

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aircraft supporting the

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global reach mission worldwide.

Mission

Train and equip C-17 aircrews for global air-land and

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operations.

History

World War II

During

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the 300th airlifted military supplies from India to Allied forces in Burma and China in 1943.

Military Air Transport Service

It flew airlift missions within Japan and to Southeast Asia from 1952 to 1955. The squadron airlifted US ex-

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from Japan to the U.S. following the

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and transported French troops wounded in the

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from Japan to France and Algeria in 1954.

Air Force Reserve

It has flown worldwide airlift missions since 1969. Specifically, the 300th airlifted U.S. troops to Grenada and U.S. students from Grenada to the U.S. in 1983 and supported the 1989 contingency operation in Panama. Received the Air Force Reserve Aircrew of the Year award twice.

Operations

Operation Urgent Fury The United States and a coalition of Caribbean countries invaded the small island nation of Grenada, north of Venezuela, at dawn on 25 October 1983. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, it resulted in military occupation with ...

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1991 mobilized for the Gulf War

Lineage

; 100th Air Transport Squadron * Constituted as the 100th Transport Squadron on 4 June 1943 : Activated on 21 June 1943 : Disbanded on 1 December 1943 * Reconstituted and redesignated 100th Air Transport Squadron, Medium on 20 June 1952 : Activated on 20 July 1952 : Inactivated on 25 October 1955 * Consolidated with the 300th Military Airlift Squadron as the 300th Military Airlift Squadron on 19 September 1985 ; 300th Airlift Squadron * Constituted as the 300th Military Airlift Squadron (Associate) on 31 July 1969 : Activated in the reserve on 25 September 1969 : Consolidated with the 100th Air Transport Squadron on 19 September 1985 : Redesignated 300th Airlift Squadron (Associate) on 1 February 1992 : Redesignated 300th Airlift Squadron on 1 October 1994

Assignments

* 29th Transport Group, 21 June – 1 December 1943 * 1503d Air Transport Wing, 20 July 1952 * 1611th Air Transport Group, 9–25 October 1955 * 943d Military Airlift Group, 25 September 1969 * 315th Military Airlift Wing (later 315th Airlift Wing), 1 July 1973 * 315th Operations Group, 1 August 1992 – present

Stations

* Sookerating Airfield, India, 21 June – 1 December 1943 * Haneda Air Base (later Tokyo International Airport), Japan, 20 Jul 1952 – 8 Oct 1955 *

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, New Jersey, 9–25 October 1955 * Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, 25 September 1969 – present

Aircraft

Douglas C-47 Skytrain The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota ( RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner. It was used extensively by the Allies during World War II. During the war the C-47 was used for tro ...

(1943) *

Curtiss C-46 Commando The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurized high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports used the name "Condor III" but the Commando name was in use by early 1942 in company p ...

(1943) *

Douglas C-54 Skymaster The Douglas C-54 Skymaster is a four-engined transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and the Korean War. Like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain derived from the DC-3, the C-54 Skymaster was derived from a civilia ...

(1952–1955) * Lockheed C-141 Starlifter (1969–1997) * McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster III (1997–present)

References

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Bibliography

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External links

* {{US Air Force navbox Military units and formations in South Carolina

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