18th Air Refueling Squadron, US Air Force

18TH AIR REFUELING SQUADRON, US AIR FORCE

History:Constituted 18 Transport Squadron on 20 Nov 1940. Activated on 11 Dec 1940. Redesignated 18 Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 Jul 1942. Inactivated on 31 Jul 1945. Redesignated 18 Troop Carrier Squadron, Heavy on 24 Jul 1948. Activated on 1 Aug 1948. Inactivated on 1 Mar 1949. Redesignated 18 Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium on 3 Jul 1952. Activated on 14 Jul 1952. Inactivated on 21 Jul 1954. Activated on 3 Aug 1961. Organized on 8 Jan 1962. Redesignated 18 Troop Carrier Squadron on 1 Mar 1966. Discontinued, and inactivated, on 25 Jun 1967. Redesignated 18 Tactical Airlift Training Squadron on 14 Aug 1969. Activated on 15 Oct 1969. Inactivated on 31 Aug 1972. Redesignated 18 Air Refueling Squadron on 9 Sep 1994. Activated in the Reserve on 1 Oct 1995.

During World War II flew airborne assaults on Sicily, Myitkyina, Burma, and Southern France; supported partisians in Northern Italy, Jan-May 1945; aerial transportation in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and briefly in the China-Burma-India Theater. Strategic and tactical airlift missions, 1948-1954 and 1962-1967. Tactical airlift training for US and later, South Vietnamese pilots and crews, 1969-1972. Worldwide air refueling, 1995-.

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Origin/meaning

The Emblem was approved 20 May 1964.

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

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