29th Tactical Airlift Squadron The 29th Tactical Airlift Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit . Its last assignment was with the 316th Tactical Airlift Wing stationed at Langley Air Force Base , Virginia . It was inactivated on 15 November 1971 . History . Activated in early 1942 under Air Transport ( Later I Troop Carrier ) Command as a C - 47 transport squadron ; trained in the southeastern United States . Deployed to North Africa as part of the Operation Torch landings ; being assigned to Oujda Airfield ; French Morocco . Performed troop carrier and transport airlift of supplies to ground forces advancing though Algeria into Tunisia under Twelfth Air Force . Also evacuated wounded personnel to rear areas . Carried airborne paratroopers and performed airborne assault missions over Sicily and Italy as part of the invasion forces . Reassigned to IX Troop Carrier Command in the European Theater of Operations ( ETO ) in February 1944 as part of the pre - invasion buildup of forces in England . Performed combat airborne assault missions as part of D - Day ; Operation Market - Garden and Operation Varsity 1944 - 1945 . Also performed supply and evacuation missions in France and the Low Countries ; participated in the Western Allied invasion of Germany ; 1945 . Continued combat airlift and supply missions until the German capitulation in May 1945 . Squadron continued to operate from Achiet , France during 1945 , performing transportation of personnel and supplies within Europe ; demobilized in place during August , and inactivated as a paper unit in September 1945 . Reactivated as part of the United States Air Forces in Europe , 1946 . Assigned to transport duties as part of the European Air Transport Service , 1946 - 1947 as part of the army of occupation . Inactivated in Austria in June 1947 . Immediately reactivated as a Tactical Air Command troop carrier squadron in 1947 ; being assigned to Texas and equipped with C - 46 s . Deployed to Germany in 1948 to support Berlin Airlift ; operated from British Zone of Occupation , with C - 54 s . Inactivated in West Germany in September 1949 . Reactivated under Eighteenth Air Force in 1953 as a Tactical Air Command C - 119 Flying Boxcar troop carrier squadron . Performed routine airlift of supplies and personnel ; including Army Airborne parachute drops until being inactivated due to funding restrictions in 1955 ; Reactivated as a C - 130 Hercules Troop Carrier ( later Tactical Airlift ) squadron under TAC in 1964 . Deployed to Pacific Air Forces in 1966 to join the 463rd Troop Carrier Wing to perform theater airlift in Southeast Asia as part of 315th Air Division ; provided aircraft and crews for combat airlift operations in South Vietnam . From 1966 to early 1969 , the 29th supported the C - 130 operating location at Tan Son Nhut outside Saigon . In May 1969 , after the 463rd TAW assumed the COMMANDO VAULT bombing mission , the wing and squadron supported Detachment 2 , 834th Air Division at Cam Ranh Bay . The squadron inactivated in 1970 during the drawdown of U . S . forces in the Pacific and its aircraft and crews were distributed among the 463rd ' s other three squadrons . A squadron at Langley AFB , Virginia was given the 29th designation . Performed theater airlift at Langley AFB , Virginia 1971 and inactivated . The 29th ' s lineage was bestowed on the 29th Weapons Squadron at Little Rock AFB , Arkansas .