728th Airlift Squadron
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The 728th Airlift Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve squadron, assigned to the 446th Operations Group, stationed at McChord AFB, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. It is an associate uni
446th Airlift Wing C-17A Globemaster III
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B-17G (43-37563, «Lady Be Good») of the 452nd Bomb Group 728th Bomb Squadron passing through flak fire.
B-26Bs of the 452d Bomb Wing in Korea
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
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The McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft developed for the United States Air Force during the 1980s and the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas. The C-17 c
728th Airlift Squadron
…August 1944 after returning from a bombing mission. The squadron was selected as the first of three associate reserve squadrons to transition to the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III. The first C-17 was delivered McChord 30 July 1999. The squadron's first operational C-17 mission, in November 1999, was a mission to Hanoi, Vietnam…
The prototype C-17, known as T-1, on a test flight in 2007
The McDonnell Douglas YC-15 design was used as the basis for the C-17.
Paratroopers dropping from a C-17 during a training exercise in 2010
A Royal Australian Air Force C-17 on final approach at Christmas Island Airport in 2016