A Brief History of NAS Patuxent River’s Operational and Test Squadrons Part 1 – Transport Squadrons and TACAMO

By Bob Tourville Naval Air Station Patuxent River is widely recognized as naval aviation’s home for test and evaluation. Less well-known, though, is that, over its 75+ year history, NAS Pax River also hosted a large number of operational fleet Navy squadrons. Beyond a few very basic overviews that have been written over the years, …