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Constituted 11th Air Corps Ferrying Squadron on 18 Feb 1942. Activated on 16 Apr 1942. Redesignated 11th Ferrying Squadron on 12 May 1943. Disbanded on 1 Apr 1944. Reconstituted, and consolidated (19 Sep 1985) with the 11th Aeromedical Transport Squadron, Light, which was constituted on 18 Oct 1956. Activated on 8 Nov 1956. Redesignated: 11th Aeromedical Transport Squadron on 25 Jul 1964; 11th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron on 12 Jan 1966; 11th Airlift Squadron on 1 Oct 1993. Assignments Middle West Sector, Domestic Wing, AAF Ferrying Command (later, 5th Ferrying Group), 16 Apr 1942?1 Apr 1944. 1st Aeromedical Transport Group, 8 Nov 1956; 1405th Aeromedical Transport Wing, 8 Jun 1964; 375th Aeromedical Airlift (later, 375th Military Airlift) Wing, 12 Jan 1966; 375th Operations Group, 1 Dec 1991?. Stations Hensley Field, TX, 16 Apr 1942; Love Field, TX, 8 Sep 1942?1 Apr 1944. Scott AFB, IL, 8 Nov 1956?. Aircraft Unkn, 1942?1944. C?131, 1956?1970; C?118, 1956?1970; C?9, 1968?. Operations Ferried aircraft to modification centers and tactical units mostly within CONUS, Apr 1942?Mar 1944. Aeromedical airlift from 1956, including transport of wounded Afghan soldiers and civilians, 1986?1987. Honors Service Streamers. World War II American Theater. Campaign Streamers. None. Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None. Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: 8 Nov 1956?31 Dec 1957; 1 Jan 1958?31 Dec 1963; 1 Jun 1964?7 Jan 1966; 8?31 Jan 1966; 19?20 Aug 1969; 20 Aug 1969?30 Jun 1971; 24 Jul 1975?23 Jul 1977; 1 Jul 1981?30 Jun 1983; 1 Jun 1986?31 Jul 1988. Emblem On a sphere Azure with axis bendwise, gridlines and bordure Argent, an equilateral triangle, point to chief, Gules, fimbriated of the second, surmounted by a winged rod of Aesculapius of the last. MOTTO: AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION. Approved on 8 May 1959 (KE 35621); replaced emblem approved on 7 Oct 1943 (K 2796). |
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1775:
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |