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The Emblem was approved on 28 December 1942 (K&KE 2894). | The Emblem was approved on 28 December 1942 (K&KE 2894). | ||
[[Literature]]: Image from Wikimedia Commons. Information from https://www.afhra.af.mil/ | [[Literature]]: Image from Wikimedia Commons. Information from https://www.afhra.af.mil/ | ||
Revision as of 18:35, 20 August 2023
14TH AIRLIFT SQUADRON, US AIR FORCE
History: Constituted 14th Transport Squadron on 20 November 1940. Activated on 4 December 1940. Redesignated 14th Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 July 1942. Inactivated on 31 July 1945. Activated on 30 September 1946. Redesignated: 14th Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium, on 1 July 1948; 14th Troop Carrier Squadron, Heavy, on 15 August 1948; 14th Military Airlift Squadron on 8 January 1966; 14th Airlift Squadron on 1 January 1992. World War II: Included airborne assaults on Sicily, Normandy, Holland, and Germany; aerial transportation in MTO and ETO. Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949. Korea: Aerial transportation from US to Japan and between Japan and Korea, 16 November 1951-1 December 1952. Worldwide airlift beginning 1953. Aerial transport missions to Southeast Asia, 1966-1973, and evacuation of South Vietnam, April-June 1975. Supported operations in Grenada, October-November 1983; Panama, December 1989-January 1990; and Southwest Asia, August 1990-December 1991.
| English | On a Blue disc fimbriated White bordered Yellow, a caricatured troop-carrying pelican in flight, bendsinisterwise, Light Blue and White, wings slotted to represent ailerons, beak Orange, having three windows and a door, from which two paratroopers proper, have emerged and are floating earthward in lower base. |
Origin/meaning
The Emblem was approved on 28 December 1942 (K&KE 2894). Literature: Image from Wikimedia Commons. Information from https://www.afhra.af.mil/