42nd Troop Carrier Squadron: 2 May 1942 - 18 Feb 1944
54th Troop Carrier Squadron: 15 Nov 1942 - 20 Jul 1956

17 Apr 1942 - Constituted 42d Transport Squadron
  2 May1942 - Activated
  5 Jul  1942 - Redesignated 42d Troop Carrier Squadron
14 Apr 1944 - Disbanded

Note: Assignment of the unit once it left Alaska will not be covered.

  2  May1942 – Eleventh Air Force, Ak
21 Jun - 8 Aug 1942 – Attached to XI Air Force Service Command [Prov]
  8 Aug 1942 – XI Air Force Service Command
  1 Jul 1943 - 6 Mar 1944 – Attached to Troop Carrier Group [Prov]

  2 May 1942 - 15 Feb 1944 – Elmendorf Field, Ak

Note: Assignment of the unit once it left Alaska will not be covered.

1942 - 1944 - C-47
            1942 - C-53

May 1942 - Feb 1944 – Aerial transportation in Alaska

30 May1942 - Constituted 54th Transport Squadron
  1 Jun 1942 - Activated
  4 Jul  1942 - Redesignated 54th Troop Carrier Squadron

Note: Assignment of the unit once it left Alaska will not be covered.

  1 Jun 1942 – 64th Transport Group
11 Jun 1942 – 315th Transport (later Troop Carrier) Group
23 Oct 1942 – Fourth Air Force
15 Nov1942 –  XI Air Force Service Command
   1 Jul 1943 - 18 Feb 1944 – Attached to Troop Carrier Group [Prov]
10 Oct 1944 - 5 Mar 1949 – Eleventh Air Force (later Alaskan Air Command)

       1 Jun 1942 – Hamilton Field, Ca
c. 19 Jun 1942 – Bowman Field, Ky
       3 Aug - 17 Oct 1942 – Florence, SC
15 Nov 1942 - 5 Mar 1949 – Elmendorf Field, Ak

Note: Assignment of the unit once it left Alaska will not be covered.

1942 - 1944 - C-60
1942 - 1949 - C-47
 

Operations

Aerial transportation in Alaska during WWII

Service Steamers
None

Campaigns
Aleutian Islands; Air Combat, Asiatic-Pacific Theater

Decorations
None

Emblem
None during the war

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