[3][4][5][6] The group trained with Consolidated B-24 Liberators under Second Air Force Until October, when it moved to Westover Field, Massachusetts.

[4][7] The group flew long-range convoy escort missions over area between the Newfoundland Banks and Long Island Sound in November and December 1943 while Giulia Airfield, its station in Italy, was being constructed.

[7] It engaged in very long range strategic bombing missions to enemy military, industrial and transportation targets in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia, bombing railroad marshalling yards, oil refineries, airfields, heavy industry, and other strategic objectives.

In August, it struck bridges, harbors, and troop concentrations to aid Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France.

[8] The group returned to the United States in August 1945, earmarked to conduct strategic air raids on Japan with Boeing B-29 Superfortresses.

[citation needed] A cadre reformed at Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota in the middle of the month.

[12] President Truman’s reduced 1949 defense budget required reductions in the number of units in the Air Force.

[13] ConAC also reorganized its reserve units under the wing base organization system in June 1949,[4] making the group and its squadrons at Long Beach surplus.

[1] The reserve flying mission began at Andrews Air Force Base in the summer of 1954, when the 756th Troop Carrier Squadron was activated and equipped with Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft.

Sixteen Ton was performed entirely by reserve troop carrier units and moved United States Coast Guard equipment From Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station to Isla Grande Airport in Puerto Rico and San Salvador in the Bahamas.

Until September 1994, it participated in contingency and humanitarian airlift operations, training exercises, Air Mobility Command channel flights, and aeromedical evacuation missions.