 At this time it transferred to Bowman Field, Kentucky where it began flying the Douglas C-47 Skytrain.The pace of developments in World War II drove a rapid training and deployment schedule, and on 6 December 1942, the 40th moved to Laurinburg-Maxton Army Air Base, North Carolina to begin staging for its move to the Pacific.A few days later, the squadron left North Carolina for the Mobile Air Depot, Alabama where it received thirteen new C-47s.