The group trained with late model Republic P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft to provide very-long-range escort for Boeing B-29 Superfortresses in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

In Hawaii, the group also trained replacement pilots for other organizations, repaired P-47s and North American P-51 Mustangs of fighter units engaged in combat, and ferried aircraft to forward areas.

[5] The unit was inactivated in Hawaii on 25 November 1945 and replaced by the 15th Fighter Group, which moved on paper from Iwo Jima and assumed the 508th's mission, personnel and equipment.

[1] In Operation Long Stride, the wing performed what at the time was the longest nonstop flight by single engine jet aircraft in history.

In August 1953, twenty wing aircraft flew from its home base at Turner to RAF Lakenheath in England, returning in September.

[1] SAC fighters deployed to Japan also provided escort for reconnaissance aircraft flying missions in the area.

[14] Hill was selected because the 945th Military Airlift Group there was slated to lose its Douglas C-124 Globemaster IIs, which were being removed from the inventory.

Wing functions included acquisition, modification, modernization and maintenance and repair of the systems it supported.

The groups also supported aircraft not in the active Air Force inventory that were flown by foreign countries or other agencies of the United States.

[20] The wing was inactivated in 2010 when Air Force Materiel Command returned to its traditional directorate system for program and maintenance management.

[21] This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency