The 38th Air Transport Squadron is an inactive

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal ...

unit. Its last was assigned to the

1611th Air Transport Wing The 1611th Air Transport Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last was assigned to the Eastern Transport Air Force, Military Air Transport Service, stationed at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. It was inactivated on 8 Ja ...

Military Air Transport Service The Military Air Transport Service (MATS) is an inactive Department of Defense Unified Command. Activated on 1 June 1948, MATS was a consolidation of the United States Navy's Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) and the United States Air Force's ...

, stationed at

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, New Jersey. It was inactivated on 25 June 1965.

History

Activated during

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as a ferrying squadron. Moved to the Pacific and served on Christmas Island until it was replaced by Station 8, Pacific Wing, Air Transport Command in a general reorganization of

Air Transport Command Air Transport Command (ATC) was a United States Air Force unit that was created during World War II as the strategic airlift component of the United States Army Air Forces. It had two main missions, the first being the delivery of supplies and ...

in 1943. Reestablished in 1954 as a

Douglas C-118 Liftmaster The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. Originally intended as a military transport near the end of World War II, it was reworked after the war to compete with th ...

transport squadron. Flew MATS passenger flights on a worldwide scale until inactivated in 1965 with the phaseout of the C-118.

Lineage

* Constituted as the 38th Ferrying Squadron : Activated c. 9 July 1942 * Redesignated 38th Transport Squadron on 19 March 1943 : Disbanded on 18 October 1943 * Reconstituted as the 38th Air Transport Squadron, Medium c. 1 June 1954 : Activated on 18 October 1954 : Inactivated and discontinued on 25 June 1965

Assignments

* 11th Ferrying Group, c. 9 July 1942 * 19th Ferrying Group (later 19th Transport Group) 1 November 1942 – 18 October 1943 * 1611th Air Transport Group, 18 October 1954 * 1611th Air Transport Wing, 1 January 1963 - 25 June 1965

Stations

* Hamilton Field, California, c. 9 July 1942 * Cassidy Field, Christmas Island, 1 January 1943 – 18 October 1943 *

, New Jersey, 18 October 1954 - 25 June 1965Mueller, p. 414

Aircraft

* Douglas C-118 Liftmaster, 1954-1965

References

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