27th Troop Carrier Squadron

27th Troop Carrier Squadron
Active	1942-1945
Country	United States
Branch	United States Army Air Force
Role	Troop Carrier

The 27th Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 443d Troop Carrier Group, based at Liangshan, China. It was inactivated on 27 December 1945.

History

Lineage

• Constituted 27th Transport Squadron on 19 Jan 1942

Activated on Feb 1942

Redesignated 27th Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 Jul 1942

Inactivated on 27 Dec 1945.

Assignments

• 89th Transport Group, Feb 1942
• 10th Transport (later Troop Carrier) Group, 15 Jun 1942

Attached to 62d Transport [later Troop Carrier] Group, 21 Jun-5 Aug 1942

• Tenth Air Force

Attached to Troop Carrier Command, Eastern Air Command, 12 Jan 1944

• 443d Troop Carrier Group, 6 Mar 1944-27 Dec 1945

Attached to 69th Composite Wing, 21 May 1944-c. Jul 1945

Stations

• Daniel Field, Georgia, 1 Feb 1942
• Harding AAF, Louisiana, 10 Mar 1942
• Kellogg AAF, Michigan, 21 Jun 1942
• Bowman Field, Kentucky, 5 Aug 1942
• Pope Field, North Carolina, 4 Oct 1942
• Lawson Field, Georgia, 2 Dec 1942
• Dunnellon AAF, Florida, 14 Feb-13 Dec 1943
• Sylhet, India, 12 Jan 1944
• Yunnani, China, 21 May 1944

Detachments operated from Chanyi, Chengtu, and Kunming at various times

• Chengkung, China, 15 Feb 1945
• Liangshan, China, 13 Aug-27 Dec 1945.

Aircraft

• C-48, 1942
• C-49, 1942
• C-53, 1942-1943
• C-47, 1942-1945.

Operational history

Training of transport and glider pilots, and later replacement crews, 21 Jun 1942-30 Nov 1943; aerial transportation in CBI, 13 Jan 1944-c. 13 Aug 1945.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

• Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0892010924.