The 27th group was activated to give a formal organization to several airlift operations that were already serving VIII Air Force Service Command.

[1] In the fall of 1944, the group and its squadrons moved to Le Bourget Airport, near Paris, where the 86th continued its operations through V-E Day.

[4] It flew long-distance flights from Travis to Hawaii, Guam, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan and the Philippines.

The 86th was inactivated in 1993 and its mission, personnel and equipment were transferred to the 20th Airlift Squadron.

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