Complex sentence: At 2:30 AM, on 1 May, a US Army Air Force, 317 Tactical Control Squadron C-47 carrying a twenty man pathfinder team departed for Rangoon, followed by a CCG plane carrying a pair of VCP teams.
Split into simpler sentences: At 2:30 AM on 1 May, a C-47 of 317 Tactical Control Squadron USAAF departed for Rangoon carrying a twenty man pathfinder team. It was followed by a CCG plane carrying a pair of VCP teams.