448th Supply Chain Management Group

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448th Supply Chain Management Group (formerly 448th Bombardment Group)
European Theater of Operations[2]
Insignia
448th Supply Chain Management Group emblem[note 2]
448th Bombardment Group emblem[1]
World War II Tail Marking (December 1943-May 1944)[1]Circle I
World War II Tail Marking (May 1944-June 1945)[1]Yellow tail with black diagonal stripe

The 448th Supply Chain Management Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was to the 448th Supply Chain Management Wing at Tinker Air Force Base, Texas, where it was inactivated on 30 June 2010.

The

marshalling yard at Salzburg
, Austria.

It returned to the United States in July 1945, and was assigned to

Fort Worth Army Air Field, where it became one of the original ten B-29 bombardment groups assigned to Strategic Air Command
. The group was inactivated on 4 August 1946 and its aircraft and personnel were reassigned another unit.

Reactivated in 1947 in the Air Force reserve, in 1949 it was reorganized as a light bomber group, It was mobilized in 1951 with its personnel and aircraft being used to bring other units up to full strength before inactivating. The group was again active in the reserve from 1955 to 1957 as the 448th Fighter-Bomber Group.

The group was redesignated the 448th Combat Sustainment Group and activated at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma in 2006, but was inactivated as the 448th Combat Sustainment Group in 2010.

History

World War II

B-24J Liberator of the 713th Bomb Squadron[note 3]

Initial organization and training in the United States

The

Sioux City Army Air Base, Iowa for final training. The ground echelon moved to Camp Shanks, New York and sailed for England aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth on 23 November. The air echelon completed final processing at Herington Army Air Field, Kansas and deployed with their Liberators via the southern ferry route.[5][7]

Combat in Europe

The group was established at

oil refineries near Pölitz, aircraft engine plants at Rostock, among other strategic targets. The squadron participated in Big Week, an intensive campaign against German aircraft manufacturing plants from 20 to 25 February 1944.[2]

The squadron was occasionally diverted from its strategic bombing mission to fly

fighter ace during the Korean War, served as a navigator with the group.[7]

Cold War

Strategic Air Command

The air echelon began returning to the United States with their planes in June 1945, while the ground echelon sailed from

92nd Bombardment Group, which was simultaneously activated.[2][7][8]

Air Force reserve

Main article: 448th Supply Chain Management Wing

The group was reactivated as a

711th Bombardment Squadron.[13][14] However, its operational squadrons were staffed at 25% of normal strength.[15]

In August 1950, the 448th Wing's companion reserve unit at Long Beach, the

452d Bombardment Wing, was mobilized for Korean War service. In order to bring the 452d Wing to combat strength, skilled reservists and reservists who required 60 or fewer days training to qualify them as fully skilled assigned to the 448th Wing were transferred to the 452d Wing.[16] The group itself was called to active duty in the second wave of mobilization in March 1951 and its personnel who had not been transferred to the 452d Wing were used as fillers for other Air Force organizations, while the squadron was inactivated four days later.[2][17]

The reserve mobilization for the Korean War left it without aircraft, and the reserve did not again receive aircraft until July 1952.

Lockheed F-80 Shooting Stars
.

Despite its

fighter bomber designation, the squadron was gained on mobilization by Air Defense Command upon mobilization. The group flew the F-80 until 1957, when it began converting to the North American F-86 Sabre.[12]

However, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were pressuring the Air Force to provide more wartime airlift. At the same time, about 150 Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars became available from the active force. Consequently, in November 1956 the Air Force directed Continental Air Command to convert three reserve fighter bomber wings to the troop carrier mission by September 1957. In addition, within the Air Staff was a recommendation that the reserve fighter mission given to the Air National Guard and replaced by the troop carrier mission.[20] As a consequence in November 1957, the 448th[14] and the remainder of the 448th Wing were inactivated[12] when reserve operations at Hensley converted to the airlift mission.

Logistics management

Main article: 448th Supply Chain Management Wing

In 2005, Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) implemented the AFMC Transformation project, which replaced the staff agencies at air logistics centers with wings, groups, and squadrons. The group was redesignated the 448th Eagle Propulsion Sustainment Group and activated at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma on 18 February 2005. It was assigned three newly organized combat sustainment squadrons, the 540th, 541st, and 542nd.[21] A little over a year later, AFMC removed the specific systems from the new groups' designations and the 448th became the 448th Combat Sustainment Group.[22] In 2008, it became the 448th Supply Chain Management Group and its subordinate squadrons were inactivated.[23] In 2010, AFMC returned some supply management functions to logistics complex staffs, and the group was inactivated.[24]

Lineage

  • Constituted as the 448th Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 6 April 1943
Activated on 1 May 1943
Redesignated 448th Bombardment Group, Heavy on 20 August 1943
Redesignated 448th Bombardment Group, Very Heavy on 5 August 1945
Inactivated on 4 August 1946
  • Activated in the reserve on 19 April 1947
Redesignated 448th Bombardment Group, Light on 27 June 1949
Ordered to active duty on 17 March 1951
Inactivated on 21 March 1951
  • Redesignated 448th Fighter-Bomber Group on 12 April 1955
Activated on 18 May 1955[25]
Inactivated on 16 November 1957
Redesignated 448th Tactical Fighter Group on 31 July 1985[26] (remained inactive)
  • Redesignated 448th Eagle Propulsion Sustainment Group on 31 January 2005
Activated on 18 February 2005[21]
Redesignated 448th Combat Sustainment Group on 14 April 2006[22]
Redesignated 448th Supply Chain Management Group on 1 April 2008[23]
Inactivated on 30 June 2010[24]

Assignments

Components

  • 41st Bombardment Squadron, 12 July 1947 – 27 June 1949[13]
  • 540th Combat Sustainment Squadron, 14 April 2006 – 28 April 2008[22][23]
  • 541st Combat Sustainment Squadron, 14 April 2006 – 28 April 2008[22][23]
  • 542d Combat Sustainment Squadron, 14 April 2006 – 28 April 2008[22][23]
  • 546th Combat Sustainment Squadron, 28 Sep 2007 – 28 April 2008[29][23]
  • 711th Bombardment Squadron (later 711th Fighter-Bomber Squadron): 27 June 1949 – 21 March 1951; 18 May 1955 – 16 November 1957[14]
  • 712th Bombardment Squadron: 1 May 1943 – 4 August 1946; 19 April 1947 – 21 March 1951[3]
  • 713th Bombardment Squadron (later 713th Fighter-Bomber Squadron): 1 May 1943 – 4 August 1946; 19 April 1947 – 21 March 1951; 18 May 1955 – 16 November 1957[4]
  • 714th Bombardment Squadron: 1 May 1943 – 4 August 1946; 19 April 1947 – 21 March 1951[5]
  • 715th Bombardment Squadron: 1 May 1943 – 6 May 1946[6]

Stations

Aircraft assigned

  • Consolidated B-24 Liberator: (1943–1946)
  • Douglas B-26 Invader: (1949–1951)
  • North American T-28 Trojan: (1955)
  • Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star: (1955–1957)
  • North American F-86 Sabre: (1957)[30]

References

Notes

Explanatory notes
  1. ^ Aircraft is Ford built Consolidated B-24H-25-FO Liberator, serial 42-95185 "Do Bunny". This aircraft was shot down by a Me 262 on 25 March 1945 over Soltau, Germany.
  2. ^ While assigned to the 448th Wing, the group uses the wing emblem with the group designation on the scroll. AF Instruction 84-105, Organizational Lineage, Honors and History, 27 April 2017, paragraph 3.3.3
  3. ^ Aircraft is North American built Consolidated B-24J-1-NT Liberator, serial 42-78491 "Egress U-Uncle" (foreground). One of only three (of eight total) B-24s built by North American Aviation to survive hostilities in World War II.
  4. ^ The 715th Squadron continued to be associated with the 509th through 2005.
Citations
  1. ^ a b c d Watkins, p.94
  2. ^ a b c d e f Maurer, Combat Units, pp. 322-323
  3. ^ a b Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 713
  4. ^ a b Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 713-714
  5. ^ a b c Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 714
  6. ^ a b c Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 715
  7. ^ a b c d Freeman, pp. 257–258
  8. ^ Maurer, Combat Units, pp. 158-160
  9. ^ See Ravenstein, p. 244
  10. ^ See Maurer, Combat Units, pp. 322–323 (no aircraft listed as assigned)
  11. ^ "Abstract, Mission Project Closeup, Continental Air Command". Air Force History Index. 27 December 1961. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  12. ^ a b c d e Ravenstein, p. 244
  13. ^ a b Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 189–190
  14. ^ a b c Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp.712-713
  15. ^ Cantwell, p. 74
  16. ^ Cantwell, pp. 92–93
  17. ^ Cantwell, p. 137
  18. ^ Cantwell, p. 139
  19. ^ Cantwell, p. 146
  20. ^ Cantwell, p. 168
  21. ^ a b c d Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Air Force Organization Change Status Report, February 2005, Maxwell AFB, AL
  22. ^ a b c d e Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Air Force Organization Change Status Report, April 2006, Maxwell AFB, AL
  23. ^ a b c d e f Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Air Force Organization Change Status Report, April 2008, Maxwell AFB, AL
  24. ^ a b c d Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Air Force Organization Change Status Report, June 2010, Maxwell AFB, AL
  25. ^ a b Lineage and station information through 1956 in Maurer, Combat Units, pp. 322-323
  26. ^ Department of the Air Force/MPM Letter 648q, 31 July 1985, Subject: Reconstitution, Redesignation, and Consolidation of Selected Air Force Organizations
  27. ^ "Factsheet 96 Air Division, Bombardment". Air Force Historical Research Agency. 5 October 2007. Archived from the original on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  28. ^ "Factsheet 304 Air Division, Bombardment". Air Force Historical Research Agency. 5 October 2007. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  29. ^ Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Air Force Organization Change Status Report, September 2007, Maxwell AFB, AL
  30. ^ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 712-716

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