40TH TRANSPORT SQUADRON
40TH TROOP CARRIER SQUADRON
317TH TROOP CARRIER GROUP

The Squadron was constituted on 2 February 1942 as the 40th Transport Squadron, and was activated on 18 February 1942. It was redesignated as the 40th Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 July 1942, attached to the 317th Troop Carrier Group.

The 40th Troop Carrier Squadron, arrived at Garbutt Airfield in Townsville on 23 January 1943. The Squadron relocated to Port Moresby, New Guinea on 4 October 1943. Other locations that it was posted to were as follows:-

Crash of a C-47 Dakota
in Cleveland Bay near Townsville
on 7 August 1943 with the loss of 27 lives

C-47A-30-DL Skytrain #42-23661 "Breezy Ann"
 forced landed on Pipon Island near Cape Melville
in far north Queensland on 4 November 1944

REFERENCES

40th Troop Carrier Squadron - Pacific Wrecks

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This page first produced 29 April 2026

This page last updated 29 April 2026