Following V-E Day it operated with Air Transport Command, returning American troops to the United States until it was inactivated in theater in 1945.

[3] As antisubmarine warfare assets were realigned to meet the growing threat in the North Atlantic, the 13th Group moved to Westover Field, Massachusetts.

[1][7][b] In April 1944, the squadron began flying combat missions from Torretto Airfield, Italy in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany.

[7] Two months later, on 21 August 1944, the squadron received a second DUC for an attack on underground oil storage facilities near Vienna, Austria.

It bombed bridges, viaducts, marshalling yards, and supply dumps to assist troops advancing on Rome between April and July 1944.

In September 1944, the unit transported petroleum products to troops participating in Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France.

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