able to hitch rides on returning aircraft. The War Department directed ATC to prepare for the Green Project in April 1945. This project called for the transportation of 50,000 passengers a month from Europe to the United States. 40% of these passengers would return via the South Atlantic route. To assist the division, it was augmented by the 460th Bombardment Group, plus additional individuals who had formerly been assigned to combat units. The withdrawal of Fourth Fleet from the Atlantic made former Navy facilities at Belem and Natal available to the division for housing troops. C-47s from four troop carrier groups were made available for transporting troops from Natal. Their pilots were assigned individually, but the division found that they required additional training before assigning them to the project. Inbound traffic from Dakar to Natal was mostly C-54s, while flights from Natal to Atkinson Field were in C-47s or Curtiss C-46 Commandos flown by Eastern Airlines contract pilots. By August, shipping in the Atlantic had become available to transport most troops back to the United States, and Project Green, which was programmed to last until April 1946, was terminated on 10 September 1945. Inactivation With the completion of the White and Green Projects, the South Atlantic Division once more became a wing in September 1945, and it was assigned to the Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command. Three of its stations in Brazil ended operations the following month, and by January 1946, the wing operated only a single station in Brazil, plus Ascension Island. The wing was inactivated at the end of June and its remaining units assigned directly to the Atlantic Division. Lineage Constituted as the 24th Army Air Forces Ferrying Wing on 12 June 1942 Activated on 26 June 1942 Redesignated South Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command on 5 July 1942 Redesignated South Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command on 1 July 1944 Redesignated South Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command on 20 September 1945 Inactivated on 30 June 1946 Assignments Army Air Forces Ferry Command (later Air Transport Command), 26 June 1942 Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, 20 September 1945 – 30 June 1946 Components Groups 9th Ferrying Group (later 9th Transport Group): c. 9 July 1942 – 10 October 1943 10th Ferrying Group: c. 9 July 1942 – c. November 1942 460th Bombardment Group: 15 June 1945 – 26 September 1945 Squadrons 12th Airways Communications Squadron: c. 1 May