1st Combat Cargo Squadron / 326th Troop Carrier Squadron

  April 1944 to December 1945

  United States of America

TYPE: USAAF unit

IATA/ICAO CODES: Nil

HEADQUARTERS: Bowman Field, KY (1944), Sylhet, Bengal, India (1944), Imphal, Manipur, India (1944), Tsuyung, Yunnan, China (1944-1945), Hsinching, Yunnan, China (1945), Chengkung, Yunnan, China (1945), Piardoba, Bengal, India (1945)

OTHER NAMES: 1st Combat Cargo Squadron (April 1944 to September 1945), 326^th Troop Carrier Squadron (September 1945 to December 1945)

SUBSEQUENT NAME: 326^th Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium (when reactivated September 1949)

The 1^st Combat Cargo Squadron was one of the 1^st Combat Cargo Group's four squadrons during World War II. It served in the China-Burma-India theatre where it transported personnel and supplies, primarily to forward areas, and evacuated casualties. Between September and October 1944, a detachment operated from Yunnanyi, Yunnan, China, and between March and July 1945 a detachment operated from Liangshan in the Chungking area. While being primarily a C-47 Skytrain squadron, the squadron converted partially to the Commando from June 1945. These were used for transporting men, food, arms, and ammunition until the end of the war.

After V-J Day, as the 1^st Combat Cargo Group was redesignated 512^th Troop Carrier Group, the squadron became the 326^th Troop Carrier Squadron on 19 September 1945. It was inactivated on 26 December 1945.

June 1945 to December 1945

• Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando: 43-47204
• Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando: 42-101183