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 1933Activated on 14 October 1939Redesignated
5th Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 July 1942Disbanded on 14 April 1944
Reconstituted on 25 August 1947Activated in the
reserve on 15 September 1947Inactivated on 27 June 1949.
10th Transport (later Troop Carrier) Group, 14 October 1939 – 14 April 1944Attached to 314th Troop Carrier Group, 22 February-8 April 1943
Second Air Force, 15 September 1947Tenth Air Force, 1 July 1948First Air Force, 15 August 1948433d Troop Carrier Group, 28 October 1948Tenth Air Force, 28 March-27 June 1949.Patterson Field, Ohio, 14 October 1939General Billy Mitchell Field, Wisconsin, 25 May 1942Pope Field, North Carolina, 4 October 1942Lawson Field, Georgia, 2 December 1942Grenada AAF, Mississippi, 26 January 1944Alliance AAF, Nebraska, c. 12 March-14 April 1944Selfridge Field, Michigan, 15 September 1947 – 27 June 1949.C-33 and C-39 during the period 1939-1942C-47, 1941–1944C-53, 1943–1944L-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.
