73rd Airlift Squadron, US Air Force
73RD AIRLIFT SQUADRON, US AIR FORCE
History: Constituted 73 Troop Carrier Squadron on 30 Jan 1943. Activated on 9 Feb 1943. Inactivated on 31 Jul 1946. Activated in the Reserve on 1 Aug 1947. Redesignated 73 Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium on 1 Jul 1949. Ordered to Active Service on 1 May 1951. Inactivated on 1 Feb 1953. Activated in the Reserve on 1 Feb 1953. Inactivated on 24 Mar 1954. Activated in the Reserve on 8 Jun 1957. Ordered to Active Service on 28 Oct 1962. Relieved from Active Duty on 28 Nov 1962. Redesignated: 73 Military Airlift Squadron on 1 Apr 1967; 73 Aeromedical Airlift Squadron (Associate) on 25 Jul 1969; 73 Airlift Squadron on 1 Oct 1994.
Airborne assaults on Normandy, Holland, and Germany; relief of Bastogne; transportation of passengers and cargo in ETO during World War II. Transported personnel, equipment and supplies and airdropped airborne troops and equipment, 1957-1967; long range movement of troops, cargo, and equipment, 1965-1969; and trained for space capsule recovery, 1961-1969. Augmented the active duty 375th Wing in operating the aeromedical airlift system, 1969-.
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Origin/meaning
The Emblem was approved 23 May 1984; slightly modified on 31 July 1996.
Literature: Images from Wikimedia Commons. Information from https://www.afhra.af.mil/
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