Squadrons from MOTG-81 trained pilots, aircrew and ground crew on the PBJ-1 medium bomber.

The Marine Corps divested its medium bomber fleet immediately after the war and the Group was decommissioned in December 1945.

Operational Training Squadron 8 (OTS-8) was commissioned on 1 February 1943, at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina under the command of Colonel Karl S.

From June through December 1943, the squadron trained 141 pilots, 345 aircrew and 195 ground crewman.

The group returned to MCAS Cherry Point in January 1945 and remained there until the end of the war.