11th Combat Cargo Squadron / 332nd Troop Carrier Squadron

  June 1944 to April 1947

  United States of America

TYPE: USAAF unit

IATA/ICAO CODES: Nil

HEADQUARTERS: Sylhet, Bengal, India (1944), Dinjan, Assam, India (1944-1945), Yunnani, Yunnan, China (1945), Luliang, Yunnan, China (1945), Kiangwan, Shanghai, China (1945), Peiping, China (1945-1947)

OTHER NAMES: 11^th Combat Cargo Squadron (June 1944 to September 1945), 332^nd Troop Carrier Squadron (September 1945 to April 1947)

SUBSEQUENT NAME: 332^nd Troop Carrier Squadron (Special) (when reactivated November 1948)

The 11^th Combat Cargo Squadron was one of the 3^rd 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 June and July 1944, a detachment operated from Sookerating, Assam, India. While being initially a C-47 Skytrain squadron, the squadron converted to the Commando from 1945. These were used for transporting men, food, arms, and ammunition until the end of the war.

After V-J Day, as the 3^rd Combat Cargo Group was redesignated 513^th Troop Carrier Group, the squadron became the 332^nd Troop Carrier Squadron on 29 September 1945. It airlifted Chinese troops to Eastern China to perform disarmament operations until December 1945. Then, from January 1946, It ensured transportation for General Marshall’s Executive Headquarters (State Department agency), which was attempting to resolve the dispute between the Nationalist and Communist forces in China. The Squadron was inactivated on 10 April 1947.

1945 to April 1947

• Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando: 43-47228
• Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando: 44-77310