The 84th Military Airlift Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

 unit. Its last was assigned to the 60th Military Airlift Wing, Military Airlift Command

Military Airlift Command

The Military Airlift Command is an inactive United States Air Force Major Command of the USAF which was headquartered at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. It was constituted on 1 January 1966 and active until the end of the Cold War, when the Air Force table of organization was revised...

, stationed at Travis Air Force Base

Travis Air Force Base

Travis Air Force Base is a United States Air Force air base under the operational control of the Air Mobility Command , located three miles east of the central business district of Fairfield, in Solano County, California, United States. The base is named for Brigadier General Robert F...

, California

California

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. It was inactivated on 1 July 1971.

History

Activated under Alaskan Wing, Air Transport Command

Air Transport Command

Air Transport Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its mission was to meet the urgent demand for the speedy reinforcement of the United States' military bases worldwide during World War II, using an air supply system to supplement surface transport...

 in March 1943 at Edmonton Airport, Alberta, Canada. Provided support for transient lend-lease aircraft bound for Soviet Union during 1943, as well as Eleventh Air Force

Eleventh Air Force

The Eleventh Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces . It is headquartered at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska....

 aircraft to be used during the Aleutian Campaign.

Reactivated at Great Falls AFB, Montana in 1952 under Military Air Transport Service

Military Air Transport Service

The Military Air Transport Service is an inactive Department of Defense Unified Command. Activated on 1 June 1948, MATS was a consolidation of the United States Navy Naval Air Transport Service and the United States Air Force Air Transport Command into a single, joint, unified command...

. Operated C-54 Skymasters until MATS shut down operations at Great Falls. Moved to Travis AFB in 1953, equipped with long range C-124 Globemaster II intercontinental transports. Flew worldwide strategic transport missions under Western Transport Air Force. Re-equipped with C-133B Cargomaster very heavy strategic transports in 1958, continued worldwide transport operations until July 1971 when C-133s were retired.

Lineage

• Established as 84th Ferrying Squadron and activated on 25 March 1943

Redesignated as 84th Transport Squadron on 26 March 1943

Inactivated on 20 September 1943

Disbanded on 8 October 1948

• Reconstituted as 84th Air Transport Sq (Medium) and activated on 20 January 1952

Redesignated as 84th Air Transport Squadron, Heavy on 16 May 1953

Redesignated as 84th Military Airlift Squadron on 8 January 1966

Inactivated on 1 July 1971

Assignments

• 1452d Army Air Force Base Unit, 25 March-20 September 1943
• 1701st Air Transport Wing
  1701st Air Transport Wing
  The 1701st Air Transport Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last was assigned to the Western Transport Air Force, Military Air Transport Service, stationed at Brookley Air Force Base, Alabama. It was inactivated on 18 June 1957.-History:...
  
  , 20 July 1952
• 1501st Air Transport Wing
  1501st Air Transport Wing
  The 1501st Air Transport Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit, being inactivated on 8 January 1966.The 1501st ATW was a heavy cargo transport wing of the Military Air Transport Service , formed on 1 June 1948...
  
  , 16 May 1953
• 60th Military Airlift Wing, 8 January 1966– 1 July 1971

Stations

• Edmonton Airport, Alberta, Canada, 25 March-20 September 1943
• Great Falls AFB, Montana, 20 Jul 1952
• Travis AFB, California, 16 May 1953-1 July 1971

Aircraft

• Transient lend-lease
  Lend-Lease
  Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in...
  
   aircraft on Alaska Transport Route, 1943
• C-54 Skymaster
  C-54 Skymaster
  The Douglas C-54 Skymaster was a four-engined transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces and British forces in World War II and the Korean War. Besides transport of cargo, it also carried presidents, British heads of government, and military staff...
  
  , 1952–1953
• C-124 Globemaster II
  C-124 Globemaster II
  The Douglas C-124 Globemaster II, nicknamed "Old Shakey", was a heavy-lift cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California....
  
  , 1953–1958
• C-133 Cargomaster
  C-133 Cargomaster
  The Douglas C-133 Cargomaster was a large cargo aircraft built between 1956 and 1961 by the Douglas Aircraft Company for use with the United States Air Force. The C-133 was the USAF's only production turboprop-powered strategic airlifter, entering service shortly after Lockheed's better known C-130...
  
  , 1958–1971