Lineage

Constituted 4th Provisional Transport Squadron on 1 Mar 1935. Redesignated 4th Transport Squadron on 25 Jun 1935. Activated on 8 Jul 1935. Redesignated 4th Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 Jul 1942. Inactivated on 13 Dec 1945. Activated on 7 Sep 1946. Redesignated: 4th Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium, on 23 Jun 1948; 4th Troop Carrier Squadron, Heavy, on 12 Oct 1949; 4th Air Transport Squadron, Heavy, on 8 Jul 1962; 4th Military Airlift Squadron on 8 Jan 1966; 4th Airlift Squadron on 1 Dec 1991.

Assignments

Rockwell Air Depot, 8 Jul 1935; 10th Transport Group, 20 May 1937; 62d Transport (later, 62d Troop Carrier) Group, 10 May 1941?14 Nov 1945 (attached to 64th Troop Carrier Group, 3 Apr?19 Jun 1944); unkn, 14 Nov?13 Dec 1945. 62d Troop Carrier Group, 7 Sep 1946 (attached to various elements of FEAF for operations during period 1 Dec 1950?16 Nov 1951); 62d Troop Carrier (later, 62d Air Transport; 62d Military Airlift) Wing, 15 Jan 1960; 62d Operations Group, 1 Dec 1991?.

Stations

Rockwell Field, CA, 8 Jul 1935; Sacramento, CA, 1 Dec 1938; Kellogg Field, MI, 29 May 1942; Florence, SC, 1 Jul?14 Aug 1942; Keevil, England, 25 Sep 1942; Tafaraoui, Algeria, 15 Nov 1942; Casablanca, French Morocco, 16 Dec 1942; Nouvion, Algeria, 29 Mar 1943; Matemore, Algeria, 18 May 1943; Goubrine, Tunisia, 25 Jun 1943; Gela, Sicily, 7 Sep 1943; Catania, Sicily, 18 Oct 1943; Ponte Olivo, Sicily, 27 Feb 1944 (operated from bases in India, 12 Apr?11 Jun 1944); Gaudo Airfield, Italy, 8 May 1944; Galera Airfield, Italy, 29 Jun 1944; Malignano Airfield, Italy, 3 Oct 1944; Tarquinia,

Italy, 9 Jan 1945; Rosignano Airfield, Italy, 26 May 1945; Marcianise, Italy, 28 Sep 1945; Naples, Italy, c. Oct?13 Dec 1945. Bergstrom Field, TX, 7 Sep 1946; McChord Field (later AFB), WA, 20 Jul 1947?28 Nov 1950; Ashiya AB, Japan, 1 Dec 1950; Tachikawa AB, Japan, 25 Jul 1951?16 Nov 1951; McChord AFB, WA, 16 Nov 1951; Larson AFB, WA, 11 May 1952; McChord AFB, WA, 13 Jun 1960?.

Aircraft

C?27, 1935?1937; C?33, 1936?1941; C?39, 1938?1942; C?47, 1942?1945. C?46, 1946?1947; C?82, 1947?1949; C?54, 1949?1951; C?124, 1951?1969; C?141, 1966?.

Operations

World War II: Included airborne assaults on Sicily, on Myitkyina, Burma, and on Southern France; support of partisans in Northern Italy and the Balkans; aerial transportation in MTO and, briefly, in CBI. Korea: Aerial transportation from US to Japan, and subsequently between Japan and Korea in the period 1 Dec 1950?16 Nov 1951. Airdrop of heavy equipment and personnel during the invasion of Panama on 20 Dec 1989.

Honors

Service Streamers. None.

Campaign Streamers. World War II: Tunisia; Sicliy; Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno; Southern France; North Apennines; Po Valley; Air Combat, EAME Theater; India-Burma with Arrowhead. Korea: Chinese Communist Forces Intervention; First UN

Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive.

Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. Panama, 1989?1990.

Decorations. Distinguished Unit Citation: China-Burma-India Theater, 7 Apr?15 Jun 1944. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: 19 Apr?5 May 1954; 1 Jan 1961?1 Nov

1962; 1 Jul 1965?15 Jul 1966; 1 Jul 1969?30 Jun 1970; 1 Jul 1973?30 Jun 1974; 1 Jul 1981?30 Jun 1983; 1 Jul 1983?30 Jun 1985; 14 Jun?3 Jul 1991. Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation: 1 Jul 1951?[15 Nov 1951]. Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm: 1 Apr 1966?28 Jan 1973.

Emblem

Upon a Light Blue disc edged in Black and issuant from White clouds detailed blue in base a Brown winged Army mule with provoked expression carrying a Green box strapped on its back. Approved on 17 Sep 1942 (K 2903).