In November 1943, The squadron was reassigned to Marine Aircraft Group 41 and served honorably through the end of World War II when it was deactivated on 31 October 1945.

In October 1996, MALS-41 moved to Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, and has successfully integrated with the United States Navy by working side by side with Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD) Fort Worth.

In 2004, MALS-41 augmented VMFA-112 with 55 Marines when they were the first Reserve F/A-18 Hornet squadron to deploy on a Western Pacific exercise since the Korean War.

In 2005, the Wranglers again augmented VMFA-112 in support of Battle Griffin in Norway for multi-national exercises and NATO training in the United Kingdom.

Also, in 2005 Marines from MALS-41 were deployed with the reserve Hornet squadron from Atlanta, Georgia, for combat flight operations out of Al Asad, Iraq.