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441st Troop Carrier Group
Group C-47A[note 1]
Active
1943–1946; 1949–1951
Country
United States
Branch
United States Air Force
Role
Troop Carrier
Engagements
European Theater of Operations
Decorations
Distinguished Unit Citation[1]
Military unit
The 441st Troop Carrier Group is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was to the 441st Troop Carrier Wing, stationed at Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Illinois, where it was inactivated on 14 March 1951.
During World War II, the group was a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport unit assigned to IX Troop Carrier Command in Western Europe. The 441st group flew combat paratroopers on airborne assaults on Normandy (Operation Overlord); Southern France (Operation Dragoon); the Netherlands (Operation Market-Garden), and Germany (Operation Varsity). It also flew combat resupply missions in the relief of Bastogne in 1945.
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