Transported supplies and evacuated casualties in support of the British Eighth Army, operating from desert airfields in Egypt and Libya.

Remained in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations until February 1944 until becoming part of IX Troop Carrier Command in England to participate in the buildup of forces prior to the Allied landings in France during D-Day in June 1944.

The squadron also hauled food, clothing, medicine, gasoline, ordnance equipment, and other supplies to the front lines and evacuated patients to rear zone hospitals.

It dropped paratroops near Nijmegen and towed gliders carrying reinforcements during the Operation Market Garden, the airborne attack on the Netherlands.

Reactivating briefly in 1993, and again in 1994 under AETC it has trained pilots in operational support airlift missions for VIP personnel using Lear C-21 executive aircraft.