Its last assignment was with Seventh Air Force, based on Okinawa.

On the night of 22-23 December 1942, twenty-six Consolidated B-24D Liberators of the 307th Bombardment Group staged through Midway Island for a strike on Wake Island with 135 500-pound general purpose bombs and 21 incendiaries.

The attack may have taken the Japanese by surprise, as neither searchlights nor antiaircraft fire were encountered until after the bombing had begun.

[2] After late 1943, VII Bomber Command served in combat in the Central and Western Pacific.

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