It saw combat until the surrender of Germany in May 1945, earning a French Croix de Guerre with Palm for its actions contributing to the liberation of France.

After V-E Day, the squadron returned to the United States and transitioned into the Boeing B-29 Superfortress It was inactivated on 4 August 1946 at Clovis Army Air Field, New Mexico.

[4] The squadron arrived at its combat station, RAF Rackheath, England, on 11 March 1944, and entered the strategic bombing campaign on 10 April with an attack on a military air base at Bourges.

[5] The squadron engaged in parachuting Allied agents; retrieving others; providing supplies and equipment to French Resistance forces; leaflet dropping and other clandestine missions.

The unit served chiefly as a strategic bombardment organization, attacking targets such as factories at Bonn, Osnabrück and Stuttgart, power generating facilities at Hamm, and the harbor at Kiel.

Shortly after returning to the 467th, in September 1944, the squadron spent some time transporting fuel to France to support the Allied advance toward Germany.

Most of the squadron's planes left Rackheath on 12 June 1945, while the ground echelon sailed on the RMS Queen Mary on 6 July.