It was last assigned to 4504th Missile Training Wing at Orlando Air Force Base, Florida, where it was inactivated on 15 July 1958.

[4] The OTU program involved the use of an oversized parent unit to provide cadres to "satellite groups.

[6] The 488th headquarters and all its assigned squadrons were transferred to Third Air Force and moved to MacDill Field, Florida.

[5] However, the Army Air Forces found that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were proving less well adapted to the training mission.

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