41st Airlift Squadron, US Air Force

	41ST AIRLIFT SQUADRON, US AIR FORCE Country: United States

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Origin/meaning

The emblem was approved on 13 January 1943; newest rendition approved on 17 August 2007.

History:Constituted as 41 Transport Squadron on 2 Feb 1942. Activated on 18 Feb 1942. Redesignated as:41 Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 Jul 1942; 41 Troop Carrier Squadron, Heavy, on 30 Jun 1948. Inactivated on 14 Sep 1949. Redesignated as 41 Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium, on 3 Jul 1952. Activated on 14 Jul 1952. Redesignated as:41 Troop Carrier Squadron on 8 Dec 1965; 41 Tactical Airlift Squadron on 1 Aug 1967. Inactivated on 28 Feb 1971. Activated on 31 Aug 1971. Redesignated as 41 Airlift Squadron on 1 Jan 1992.

Operations: Included paratroop drops on Nadzab (New Guinea), Noemfoor, Tagaytay (Luzon), Corregidor, and Aparri (Luzon), as well as aerial transportation in South, Southwest, and Western Pacific, during World War II. Berlin Airlift, 1948. Transported UN troops to the Congo, 1960. Airlifted personnel and equipment to Southeast Asia from Ryukyu Islands, 1965–1971. Supported airlift operations in Korea during Pueblo crisis, Jan 1968. Supported Army training and performed rotational duty throughout Europe, since 1971. Airlifted personnel, special forces and supplies during operations in Grenada, 1983 and Panama, Dec 1989–Jan 1990. Airlift in Southwest Asia, 11 Aug 1990–21 Mar 1991. Flew first high altitude airdrops since Vietnam to deliver food and medical supplies to the victims of civil war as part of UN peacekeeping effort in Bosnia, 1993. Provided airlift for US Army’s 82 Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, NC; also supported White House, US embassies in Central and South America and humanitarian airlift; airdropped troops and equipment into hostile areas, 1992-.

Literature: Image from Wikimedia Commons. Information from https://www.afhra.af.mil/.

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