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270 AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS OF WORLD WAR I1Trained for overseas duty with B-29’s.Moved to the Pacific theater, Jul-Sep 1945,and assigned to Eighth AF. The warended before the group could enter combat.Returned to the US in Dec 1945.Inactivated on 4 Jan 1946.SQUADRONS. 420th: 1944-1946. 464th:1944-1946. 536th: 1942-1944. 537th:1942-1944. 538th: 1942-1944. 539th:1942-1944. 872d: 1944-1946.STATIONS. Salt Lake City AAB, Utah,3 Nov 1942; Davis-Monthan Field, Ariz,23 Jan 1943; Pocatello AAFld, Idaho, 5Apr 1943; Muroc AAFld, Calif, 6 Dec1943-31 Mar 1944. Dalhart AAFld, Tex,25 Aug 1944; Smoky Hill AAFld, Kan, 11Dec 1944-8 Jul1945; Guam, 8 Sep-16 Dec1945; Camp Anza, Calif, 30 Dec 1945-4Jan 1946.COMMANDERS. Unkn, Nov 1942-Jan1943; Maj Paul Schwartz, 23 Jan 1943; LtCol George E Glober, 18 Jun 1943-31 Mar1944. 2d Lt Melvin A Dilcherd, 29 Aug1944; Col William W Jones, 19 Sep 1944;Col Audrin R Walker, 16 Feb 1945-unkn.CAMPAIGNS. -American Theater ; Asiatic-PacificTheater.DECORATIONS. None.INSIGNE. None.383d BOMBARDMENT GROUPConstituted as 383d BombardmentGroup (Heavy) on 28 Oct 1942. Activatedon 3 Nov 1942. Assigned to SecondAF. Equipped with B-17’s and B-24’s.Served first as an operational training andlater as a replacement training unit. Znactivatedon I Apr 1944.Redesignated 383d Bombardment Group(Very Heavy). Activated on 28 Aug1944. Assigned to Second AF. Preparedfor combat with B-29’s. Moved to thePacific theater, Aug-Sep 1945, and assignedto Eighth AF. The war endedbefore the group could enter combat. Returnedto the US in Dec 1945. Inactivatedon 3 Jan 1946.SQUADRONS. 540th: 1942-1944. 54ZJt:1942-1944. 542d: 1942-1944. 543d: 1942-1944. 876th: 1944-1946. 880th: 1944-1946.884th: 1944-1946.STATIONS. Salt Lake City AAB, Utah,3 Nov 1942; Rapid City AAB, SD, 12 Nov1942; Geiger Field, Wash, 20 Jun 1943;Peterson Field, &lo, 26 Oct 1943-1 Apr1944. Dalhart AAFld, Tex, 28 Aug 1944;Walker AAFld, Kan, 14 Jan-11 Aug 1945;Tinian, 12 Sep-19 Dec 1945; Camp Anza,Calif, 2-3 Jan 1946.COMMANDERS. Maj Elliot VandevanterJr, 27 Nov ~gp-unkn. Lt Col John PProctor, 1944; Col Richard M Montgomery,8 Dec 1g44-unkn.CAMPAIGNS. American Theater; Asiatic-PacificTheater.DECORATIONS. None.INSIGNE. None.384th BOMBARDMENT GROUPConstituted as 384th BombardmentGroup (Heavy) on 25 Nov 1942. ActCvated on I Dec 1942. Trained for combatwith B-17’s. Moved to England, May-
AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS-GROUPS 271Jun 1943, and assigned to Eighth AF.Functioned primarily as a strategic bombardmentorganization, concentrating itsattacks on airfields and industries inFrance and Germany. Targets includedairdromes at Orleans, Bricy, and Nancy;motor works at Cologne; a coking plantat Gelsenkirchen; an aircraft componentparts factory at Halberstadt; steel works atMagdeburg; and ball-bearing plants atSchweinfurt. Made a damaging raid onaircraft factories in central Germany on11 Jan 1944 and received a DUC for theaction. Took part in the campaign ofheavy bombers against the German aircraftindustry during Big Week, 20-25Feb 1944. Received another DUC for themission of 4 Apr 194 when the group,although crippled by heavy losses of menand planes, led the 41st Wing throughalmost overwhelming opposition to attackan aircraft factory and airfield at Oberpfaffenhofen.The group also bombed parts,communications centers, oil facilities, andcities, attacking such targets as oil storageplants in Leipzig and Berlin, ports at Hamburgand Emden, and marshalling yardsat Duren and Mannheim. At times it flewinterdictory and support missions. Attackedinstallations along the coast ofNormandy prior to and during the invasionin Jun 194 and then bombed airfieldsand communications beyond thebeachhead. Supported ground troops duringthe breakthrough at St Lo, 24-25 Jul,by bombing enemy strong points just beyondAllied lines. Hit tank and gun concentrationsnorth of Eindhoven to assistthe airborne assault on Holland in Sep.Struck enemy communications and fortificationsduring the Battle of the Bulge,Dec Ig44-Jan 1945. Aided the Allied assaultacross the Rhine in Mar 1945 byattacking marshalling yards, railroad junctions,and bridges to cut off enemy supplies. Remained in the theater after thewar as part of United States Air Forces inEurope. Carried American soldiers toCasablanca for return to the US, returnedGreek soldiers to their homeland, andmoved Allied troops to Germany. Znactivatedin France on 28 Feb 1946.Redesignated 384th BombardmentGroup (Very Heavy). Allotted to the reserve.Activated on 16 Jul 1947. Inactivatedon 27 Jun 1949.SQUADRONS. 338th: 1947-1949. 339th:1947-1949. 544th: 1942-1946; 19474949.545th: 1942-1946; 1947-1949. 546th: 1942-1946. 547th: 1942-1946.STATIONS. Gowen Field, Idaho, I Dec1942; Wendover Field, Utah, 2 Jan 1943;
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