32d Air Refueling Squadron - Bases Stationed

Bases Stationed

  • Camp Kelly, Texas 13 June-11 August 1917
  • Étampes, France 20 September 1917
  • Issoudun, France 28 September 1917
  • Bordeaux, France c. 6 January-c. 18 March 1919
  • Mitchel Field, New York c. 5–14 April 1919
  • Rockwell Field, California 24 June 1932
  • March Field, California 25 October 1935
  • Albuquerque, New Mexico c. 4 June-22 November 1941
Air echelon, which was at Hamilton Field, CA, under orders for movement to Philippine Islands at time of Japanese attack on Hawaii on 7 December 1941, apparently moved to Muroc, CA, c. 8 December 1941
Ground echelon departed San Francisco aboard ship on 6 December 1941 and returned on 9 December 1941
  • Bakersfield, California 17 December 1941
Air echelon evidently departed for Southwest Pacific, c. late December 1941; concurrently dissolved and personnel assigned to other units
  • Geiger Field, Washingtonc. 14 March 1942
Air echelon re-manned and re-equipped from inactivating 354th Bombardment Squadron
  • Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico 27 May 1942
Operated From: Muroc Army Air Field, California (c. 28 May - 14 June 1942)
  • Richard E. Byrd Field, Virginia 21 June-19 July 1942
  • RAF Chelveston, England 18 August 1942
  • Tafaraoui Airfield, Algeria 26 November 1942
  • Maison Blanche Airport, Algiers, Algeria, 6 December 1942
  • Biskra Airfield, Algeria 16 December 1942
  • Ain M'lila Airfield, Algeria 16 January 1943
  • Saint-Donat Airfield, Algeria 8 March 1943
  • Oudna Airfield, Tunisia 6 August 1943
  • Cerignola Airfield, Italy 11 December 1943
  • Lucera Airfield, Italy 2 February 1944-July 1945
  • Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota 28 July 1945
  • Mountain Home Army Air Field, Idaho 17 August 1945
  • Pyote Army Air Field, Texas 23 August-15 October 1945
  • Clovis Army Air Field, New Mexico 4 August 1946
  • Smoky Hill Air Force Base, Kansas 16 July 1947
  • Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana 7 November 1949
    • Deployed: RAF Lakenheath, England (16 May - 1 December 1950)
    • Deployed: RAF Brize Norton, England (8 December 1952 - 6 March 1953)
    • Deployed: Sidi Slimane Air Base, French Morocco (14 February - 15 April 1954)
  • Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio 15 March 1965-30 September 1979
  • Rickenbacker Air Force Base, Ohio 1 November 1981
  • Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana (1981–1994)
  • Mc Guire AFB (later Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst), New Jersey 1 September 1994–present

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