[1] In June 1953, as the Korean war neared an armistice, all wing C-119s airlifted the entire 187th Regimental Combat Team (Airborne) from Kyushu, Japan to Seoul and Chunch'on, South Korea, to preclude enemy breakthroughs.

Between April 1953 and September 1954, the wing aided the French Air Force in Indochina by training aircrews, evacuating wounded, and maintaining aircraft.

It performed theater transport duties and participated in joint exercises with Army units[2] until inactivated in Japan on 23 June 1960.

Starting in late October personnel to form the cadre for the 483rd Troop Carrier Wing began to arrive at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base, South Viet Nam.

Although removal of Caribous from the Mekong Delta and An Khe was particularly controversial, the Department of Defense ordered that the wing's squadrons be located on Air Force installations, not Army posts.

[9][1] The wing's Caribou proved especially valuable in resupplying special forces camps, and largely supplanted the Fairchild C-123 Providers in performing this mission.

This arrangement continued until late 1968, when the division moved to the southern provinces and was more efficiently supported by the squadrons at Cam Ranh Bay and Vung Tau.

In August 1968 pinpoint night airdrops were accomplished at Duc Lap, Ha Thanh and Tonle Cham special forces camps.

In June 1969 during the siege of Ben Het more than 200 tons of ammunition, POL, rations, water and medical supplies were airdropped into a 100 x 200-foot zone with every load on target and 100 per cent recovered.

In March 1969, a provisional group was established at Vung Tau Airfield to exercise command and control over the wing's units located there.

Resupply of the camp was so urgent that all drop-qualified crews of the wing were ordered to Pleiku to support the operation and eleven sorties were flown that day with cover from Douglas A-1 Skyraiders.

Loss of the third Caribou in five days prompted a move to resupply the camp with night drops, with cover and illumination provided by Fairchild AC-119 Stinger gunships.

[citation needed] On 31 August 1971, three electronic warfare squadrons from the inactivating 460th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, stationed at various bases in Viet Nam, were assigned to the 483rd TAW.