Its last assignment was with the United States Air Force Reserve, based at Bedford Field, Massachusetts.

Assigned to MacDill Field, Florida, 1940 and assigned to USAAC Southeast Air District, becoming part of III Bomber Command just prior to World War II.

It was deployed to England and was reassigned to VIII Bomber Command in June 1942 as a medium Bomber command and control organization component units being equipped with B-26 Marauders.

Performed combat operations supporting allied ground forces until V-E Day It served postwar as an Air Force reserve unit, 1947–1949.

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