2d Airlift Squadron

The 2nd Airlift Squadron (2 AS) of the United States Air Force is an airlift squadron operating from Pope Air Force Base, Fayetteville, North Carolina. They operate C-130 Hercules aircraft. The squadron is part of the 43d Airlift Wing of the Air Mobility Command.

The squadron trained transport pilots, 21 May-1 October 1942; transported troops and airdropped them during the airborne assault on Myitkyina, Burma, 17 May 1944; aerial transportation in China-Burma-India theater, 25 February 1943-c. August 1945; airlift of Chinese troops to eastern China for disarmament operations, September-November 1945. Airlift for airborne troops, 1 June 1992–present.

Today the squadron flies C-130H2 Hercules' transport aircraft on airlift missions and shares 16 of these aircraft in an association with the Air Force Reserve Command's 440th Airlift Wing. After being moved to Pope in the 2005 BRAC, the 440th became the first Air Force Reserve Wing to have an active duty associate squadron.

Mission
Provide the Department of Defense with highly trained, highly motivated, combat-ready aircrews who execute the best tactical airlift/airdrop operations in the United States Air Force.

Lineage

 * Constituted 2d Provisional Transport Squadron on 1 March 1935
 * Redesignated 2d Transport Squadron, and activated, on 28 June 1935
 * Redesignated 2d Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 July 1942
 * Inactivated on 24 December 1945


 * Redesignated 2d Airlift Squadron, and activated, on 1 June 1992.

Assignments

 * Middletown Air Depot, Pennsylvania, 28 June 1935
 * 10th Transport (later, 10th Troop Carrier) Group, 20 May 1937
 * Tenth Air Force, c. 17 February 1943
 * Attached to India-China Wing, Air Transport Command, 9 March-1 July 1943


 * Assam Air Base Command, c. 1 July 1943
 * Attached to Troop Carrier Command, Eastern Air Command, 20 December 1943-6 March 1944


 * 443d Troop Carrier Group, 6 March 1944-24 December 1945
 * 23d Operations Group, 1 June 1992-1 April 1997
 * 43d Airlift Wing, 1 April 1997–present

Stations

 * Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania, 28 June 1935
 * Stout Field, Indiana, 21 May 1942
 * Kellogg Field, Michigan, 1 July 1942
 * Bowman Field, Kentucky, 4 August 1942
 * Pope Field, North Carolina, 1 October 1942-23 January 1943
 * Yangkai, China, 17 February 1943
 * Dinjan, India, 1 July 1943
 * Shingbwiyang, Burma, 14 August 1944
 * Dinjan, India, 1 June 1945
 * Chihkiang, China, 24 August 1945
 * Hankow, China, 25 September-21 November 1945
 * Camp Anza, California, 23–24 December 1945
 * Pope AFB, North Carolina, 1 June 1992–present

Aircraft

 * C-27, 1935–1937
 * C-33, 1936–1939
 * Including C-39 and various civilian and military modifications of DC-3 during period 1939-1941
 * C-47, 1942–1945
 * C-46, 1945
 * C-130, 1992–present