page_title: 440th Operations Group
hierarchical_section_title: 440th Operations Group
caption_attribution_description: English: Tailgating at Pope Ramp fills up as 11 of 16 aircraft now assigned to the 440th Airlift Wing at Pope Air Force Base, N.C.; Five additional planes due to arrive soon as the wing moves closer to full active association unit where active duty and Reserve personnel work side by side. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Lt. Col. Ann Knabe)
context_page_description: The 440th Operations Group is an active United States Air Force Reserve unit. It is the flying component of the Twenty-Second Air Force 440th Airlift Wing, stationed at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina.
  The unit's World War II predecessor unit, the 440th Troop Carrier Group was a C-47 Skytrain transport unit assigned to Ninth Air Force in Western Europe. The 440th TCG dropped paratroops of the 101st Airborne Division near Carentan on the Cotentin Peninsula of France on 6 June 1944 and by transporting gasoline, ammunition, food, and other supplies to the same area on 7 June, being awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation for completing these missions during the Invasion of Normandy.
context_section_description: The 440th Operations Group is an active United States Air Force Reserve unit. It is the flying component of the Twenty-Second Air Force 440th Airlift Wing, stationed at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina.
  The unit's World War II predecessor unit, the 440th Troop Carrier Group was a C-47 Skytrain transport unit assigned to Ninth Air Force in Western Europe. The 440th TCG dropped paratroops of the 101st Airborne Division near Carentan on the Cotentin Peninsula of France on 6 June 1944 and by transporting gasoline, ammunition, food, and other supplies to the same area on 7 June, being awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation for completing these missions during the Invasion of Normandy.
caption: C-130s of the 440th Operations Group at Pope Air Force Base, N.C
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