The Wright Project flew its special radar-equipped SB-24 Snoopers nightly from 8 to 27 August 1943 on 1900 mile round trips from Los Negros Island to bomb Palau.

This was in great part because radar maintenance drew heavily on normal ground personnel of the host unit.

By March 1944, the Japanese ceased sending shipping convoys to the Solomon Islands area and the squadron was out of a job and were subsequently used as pathfinders for high-altitude bombers.

In August 1944 they conducted nightly 1100 mile two-plane attacks from Los Negroes to the Palaus in the Netherlands East Indies.

Ten B-24 Snoopers of the 868th struck Soerabaja, Java, on 7 May, flying a total distance of 2660 statute miles, in 17 hours and 40 minutes, one of the longest flights ever made by B-24 aircraft in combat formation.

A measure of success was achieved in both strikes against Java; in each case, the Japanese were taken by surprise and shipping in the harbors was left either sunk or damaged.

The squadron returned to the United States in December 1945 and was inactivated at Fort Lewis, Washington the day after its arrival.

[5] The support unit went through renumbering almost as often as the missile squadrons and on 18 August 1958, the detachment was replaced by the 6214th Air Base Group.

Personnel under the direction of Colonel Douglas Livingston were dispatched to Saudi Arabia, as the group represented the little Air Force expertise that was available on ground-launched missiles.