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[[File:{{PAGENAME}}. | History: Constituted as 48 Transport Squadron on 30 May 1942. Activated on 15 Jun 1942. Redesignated as 48 Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 Jul 1942. Inactivated on 15 Nov 1945. Activated on 30 Sep 1946. Redesignated as: 48 Troop Carrier Squadron, Heavy on 30 Jul 1948; 48 Troop Carrier Squadron, Special on 1 Feb 1949. Inactivated on 18 Sep 1949. Redesignated as 48 Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium on 26 Nov 1952. Activated on 1 Feb 1953. Inactivated on 8 Jun 1955. Activated on 20 Aug 1964. Organized on 1 Jan 1965. Redesignated as 48 Troop Carrier Squadron on 1 Mar 1966. Discontinued, and inactivated, on 25 Jun 1967. Redesignated as 48 Tactical Airlift Squadron on 15 Jun 1971. Activated on 15 Nov 1971. Inactivated on 1 Sep 1973. Redesignated as 48 Airlift Squadron on 21 Nov 2003. Activated on 1 Dec 2003. | ||
Supported airborne assaults on Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Holland, and Germany during World War II. Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949. Supported U.S. Army forces, 1953-1955. Provided airlift for airborne forces, 1965-1967; deployed aircraft and crews to France and England, Oct 1965-Mar 1967 and to Panama Canal Zone, Mar-Jun 1967. Intra-theater airlift and support of U.S. Army airborne forces, 1971-1973. Trained crews for airlift operations, 2003-. | |||
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===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
The Emblem was approved on 30 August 1954. | |||
Literature: Image from Wikimedia Commons | Literature: Image from Wikimedia Commons. Information from https://www.afhra.af.mil/ | ||
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[[Category:Military heraldry of the United States]] | [[Category:Military heraldry of the United States]] | ||
[[Category:Air Force heraldry]] | [[Category:Air Force heraldry]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1954]] | |||