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The 782d Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was to the 465th Troop Carrier Wing, stationed at Neubiberg Air Base, West Germany. It was inactivated on 20 December 1957. ==History== Activated as a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber squadron in mid-1943, it trained under the Second Air Force. It deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) in March 1944, where it was assigned to the Fifteenth Air Force. It flew strategic bombardment combat missions over France, Germany, Italy, Austria and the Balkans until the German capitulation in May 1945. The unit was attached to Air Transport Command in June 1945; it used its B-24s as transport aircraft, flying personnel from Trinidad to Florida. The squadron inactivated in place in Trinidad during July 1945. Re-activated in 1953 as a Tactical Air Command C-119 Troop Carrier squadron under the Eighteenth Air Force, it primarily flew cargo transport missions, but also supported US Army airborne parachute units on maneuvers from Fort Bragg, North Carolina and Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The squadron was reassigned in 1953 as a United States Air Forces in Europe troop carrier squadron, stationed in France and later West Germany. It performed theater airlift and transport operations until 1957 when it was inactivated due to budget restrictions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「782d Troop Carrier Squadron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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