The 5th Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Tenth Air Force, based at Selfridge Field, Michigan. It was inactivated on 27 June 1949.
Constituted 5th Transport Squadronon 1 October 1933
Activated on 14 October 1939
Redesignated
5th Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 July 1942
Disbanded on 14 April 1944
Reconstituted on 25 August 1947
Activated in the reserve on 15 September 1947
Inactivated on 27 June 1949.
10th Transport (later Troop Carrier) Group, 14 October 1939 – 14 April 1944
Attached to 314th Troop Carrier Group, 22 February-8 April 1943
Second Air Force, 15 September 1947
Tenth Air Force, 1 July 1948
First Air Force, 15 August 1948
433d Troop Carrier Group, 28 October 1948
Tenth Air Force, 28 March-27 June 1949.
Patterson Field, Ohio, 14 October 1939
General Billy Mitchell Field, Wisconsin, 25 May 1942
Pope Field, North Carolina, 4 October 1942
Lawson Field, Georgia, 2 December 1942
Grenada AAF, Mississippi, 26 January 1944
Alliance AAF, Nebraska, c. 12 March-14 April 1944
Selfridge Field, Michigan, 15 September 1947 – 27 June 1949.
C-33 and C-39 during the period 1939-1942
C-47, 1941–1944
C-53, 1943–1944
L-3 and L-4, 1943.
Operational training unit prior to December 1942; replacement training for glider crews, c. December 1942-April 1944; provided training for army airborne units, and ferried gliders, 1943–1944.
