On 1 July 1944 the Group was part of the RAF Third Tactical Air Force alongside No.

38 Squadron was based at Changi and, from April 1951 to February 1952, at Kuala Lumpur in central Malaya.

The Lincolns generally conducted area bombing missions, as well as precision strikes, to harass communist insurgents.

The Dakotas were tasked with airlifting cargo, VIPs, troops and casualties, as well as courier flights and supply drops.

1 Squadron to carry on as the sole RAAF unit in the Malayan air campaign until its withdrawal to Australia in July 1958.

224 Group units during January 1962 included:[5] Other squadrons listed by Eric Smith as having been engaged during the Confrontation with Indonesia included[6] 64 (Javelin F9s from Tengah, with a forward location at Labuan/Kuching); 205 (Shackleton MR2s from Changi); 215 (Argosy C1s from Changi); 66 (Belvedere HC1s from Seletar); 103 and 230 deployed from the UK with Whirlwind 10s; No.

II surface to air missiles from Seletar, with a forward detachment at Kuching.

[7] The group's its last commander was an Australian, Air Vice Marshal Brian Eaton RAAF.