12th Troop Carrier Squadron

The 12th Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 322d Air Division stationed at Dreux-Louvilliers Air Base, France. It was inactivated on 8 January 1961.

Lineage

 * Constituted as 12th Transport Squadron on 1 January 1938
 * Activated on December 1940
 * Redesignated 12th Troop Carrier Squadron on 5 July 1942
 * Inactivated on 31 July 1945


 * Activated on 30 September 1946
 * Redesignated: 12th Troop Carrier Squadron (Medium) on 1 July 1948
 * Redesignated: 12th Troop Carrier Squadron (Heavy) on 5 November 1948
 * Redesignated: 12th Troop Carrier Squadron (Medium) on 16 November 1949
 * Discontinued, and inactivated, on 8 January 1961.

Assignments

 * 60th Transport (later Troop Carrier) Group, 1 December 1940-31 July 1945
 * 60th Troop Carrier Group, 30 September 1946
 * 60th Troop Carrier Wing, 12 March 1957
 * 322d Air Division, 25 September 1958-8 January 1961.

Stations

 * Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania, 1 December 1940
 * Mitchel Field, New York, 20 May 1941
 * Westover Field, Massachusetts, 16 December 1941-20 May 1942
 * RAF Chelveston, England, 10 June 1942
 * RAF Aldermaston, England, 7 August 1942
 * Tafaraoui Airfield, Algeria, 8 November 1942
 * Relizane Airfield, Algeria, 30 November 1942
 * Thiersville Airfield, Algeria, 20 May 1943
 * El Diem Airfield, Tunisia, 29 June 1943
 * Ponte Olivo Airfield, Sicily, 6 September 1943
 * Operated from Comiso Airfield, Sicily, 22 October-9 November 1943


 * Gerbini Airfield, Sicily, 9 November 1943
 * Brindisi Airfield, Italy, c. 29 March 1944


 * Pomigliano Airfield, Italy, 7 October 1944–May 1945
 * Waller Field, Trinidad, 4 June-31 July 1945
 * Rhein-Main AB, Germany, 30 September 1946
 * Neubiberg AB, Germany, i November 1946
 * Tempelhof AB, Germany, 5 May 1947
 * Rhein-Main AB, Germany, 20 January 1948
 * Kaufbeuren AB, Germany, 17 April 1948
 * Wiesbaden AB, Germany, 24 December 1948
 * Rhein-Main AB Germany, 26 September 1949
 * Wiesbaden AB, Germany (Later West Germany), 20 October 1949
 * Rhein-Main AB, West Germany, 7 July 1950
 * Dreux AB, France, 13 September 1955-8 January 1961

Aircraft

 * C-47, 1942–1945; 1946–1948
 * C-54, 1948–1949
 * C-82, 1949–1953
 * C-119, 1953–1960

Operations history
Included airborne invasions of North Africa, Sicily, and Greece; support of partisans in the Balkans; and transportation of personnel and equipment in MTO during World War II. Berlin Airlift.