Troop Carrier Group (C-47/C-53) 32nd Troop Carrier Squadron (S2) 50th Troop Carrier Squadron (2R) 61st Troop Carrier Squadron (Q9) 62d Troop Carrier Squadron (E5) 315th Troop Carrier Group (C-47/C-53) 34th Troop Carrier Squadron (NM) 43d Troop Carrier Squadron (UA) 309th Troop Carrier Squadron (M6) 310th Troop Carrier Squadron (4A) 316th Troop Carrier Group (C-47/C-53) 36th Troop Carrier Squadron (6E) 37th Troop Carrier Squadron (W7) 44th Troop Carrier Squadron (4C) 45th Troop Carrier Squadron (T3) 53d Troop Carrier Wing 434th Troop Carrier Group (C-47/C-53) 71st Troop Carrier Squadron (CJ) 72d Troop Carrier Squadron (CU) 73d Troop Carrier Squadron (CN) 74th Troop Carrier Squadron (ID) 435th Troop Carrier Group (C-47/C-53) 75th Troop Carrier Squadron (SH) 76th Troop Carrier Squadron (CW) 77th Troop Carrier Squadron (IB) 78th Troop Carrier Squadron (CM) 436th Troop Carrier Group (C-47/C-53) 79th Troop Carrier Squadron (S6) 80th Troop Carrier Squadron (7D) 81st Troop Carrier Squadron (U5) 82d Troop Carrier Squadron (3D) 437th Troop Carrier Group (C-47/C-53) 83d Troop Carrier Squadron (T2) 84th Troop Carrier Squadron (Z8) 85th Troop Carrier Squadron (9O) 86th Troop Carrier Squadron (5K) 438th Troop Carrier Group (C-47/C-53) 87th Troop Carrier Squadron (3X) 88th Troop Carrier Squadron (M2) 89th Troop Carrier Squadron (4U) 90th Troop Carrier Squadron (Q7) IX Air Force Service Command 1st Advanced Air Depot Area 1st Tactical Air Depot 2d Tactical Air Depot 3d Tactical Air Depot 2d Advanced Air Depot Area 4th Tactical Air Depot 5th Tactical Air Depot 6th Tactical Air Depot 1585th Quartermaster Truck Regiment 31st Transport Group IX Air Force Intransit Depot Group 13th Replacement Control Depot 20th Replacement Control Depot Signal Battalion (HC) IX Engineer Command 922d Engineer Aviation Regiment 924th Engineer Aviation Regiment 925th Engineer Aviation Regiment 926th Engineer Aviation Regiment IX Air Defense Command 1/8 Antiaircraft Group 51st Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade 52d Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade Operations in Europe 1944–1945 On D-Day, IX Troop Carrier Command units flew over 2000 sorties conducting combat parachute jumps and glider landings as part of American airborne landings in Normandy of Operation Neptune. Other Ninth Air Force units carried out massive air attacks with P-51 Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bombers, North American B-25 Mitchell and Martin B-26 Marauder medium bombers. Air cover during the morning amphibious assault by Allied forces on the beaches of France was flown by P-38 Lightnings. With the beaches secure, its tactical air units then provided the air power for the Allied break-out from the Normandy beachhead