Its last duty station under this designation was Yokota Air Base, Japan, where it was inactivated on 15 January 1946.

Inactivated in 1994, in 2002 it was converted to provisional status as the 362d Air Expeditionary Group The 2d Combat Cargo Group was organized at Syracuse Army Air Base, New York, and trained with Curtiss C-46 Commando and Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft.

[5][1] The group moved to the Southwest Pacific, arriving in November 1944, and assigned to Fifth Air Force.

[1] While there it transported personnel and equipment of the occupation forces to Japan and ferried liberated prisoners of war back to the Philippines.

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