High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 301st Airlift Squadron (301 AS) is part of the 349th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base, California. It operates C-17 Globemaster III aircraft providing global airlift. The 301st dropped paratroopers in preparation for Normandy invasion on 6 June 1944. It transported cargo and mail in France and England and evacuated wounded troops from the continent. The squadron took part in the airborne attacks in Netherlands in September 1944. It dropped supplies to 101st Airborne Division surrounded at Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge. The 301st also participated in airborne crossings of the Rhine River into Germany on 24 March 1945. It was the first American air unit to occupy Tempelhof Airdrome in Berlin in 1945.

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