707th Airlift Squadron

The 307th Troop Carrier Squadron was activated as an operational training unit (OTU) in March 1943 and served in this role until July 1943.[2] The OTU program involved the use of an oversized parent unit to provide cadres to "satellite groups".[3] The 307th then served as a replacement training unit (RTU) for glider crews until April 1944.[2] RTUs were oversized units to train individual pilots or aircrews.[3]

However, the United States Army Air Forces found that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were proving less well adapted to the training mission. Accordingly, a more functional system was adopted in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit.[4] Accordingly, the 307th was disbanded[2] and its mission, personnel, and equipment were absorbed by the 805th AAF Base Unit (Replacement Training Unit, Troop Carrier).

The 707th Airlift Squadron was activated at Charleston AFB, South Carolina in 1972 as an Air Force Reserve associate squadron. The squadron did not have aircraft assigned, but flew Lockheed C-141 Starlifter aircraft assigned to the regular United States Air Force 437th Military Airlift Wing (later 437th Airlift Wing). The squadron was inactivated in 2000 as part of the C-141 retirement.

• 10th Troop Carrier Group, 15 March 1943 – 14 April 1944
• 943d Military Airlift Group, 1 October 1972
• 315th Military Airlift Wing (later 315th Airlift Wing), 1 July 1973
• 315th Operations Group, 1 August 1992 – 1 July 2000

• Baer Field, Indiana, 15 March 1943
• Grenada Army Air Field, Mississippi, 6 May 1943
• Lawson Field, Georgia, 5 June 1943
• Grenada Army Air Field, Mississippi, 28 January 1944
• Alliance Army Air Field, Nebraska, 12 March – 14 April 1944.
• Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, 1 October 1972 – 1 July 2000[6]

• Douglas C-47 Skytrain, 1943–1944
• Douglas C-53 Skytrooper, 1943–1944
• Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, 1972–2000

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

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