827th Bombardment Squadrons Deployed to Fifteenth Air Force in Italy. 505th Bombardment Group (1 April – November 1944) (B-29 Superfortress) 482nd, 483rd and 484th Bombardment Squadrons Deployed to Twentieth Air Force at Tinian. 501st Bombardment Group (22 August 1944 – 7 March 1945) (B-29 Superfortress) 21st, 41st and 485th Bombardment Squadrons Deployed to Twentieth Air Force at Guam. 376th Bombardment Group (8 May – 25 June 1945) Retrained with (B-29 Superfortress) 512th, 513th, 514th, and 515th Bombardment Squadrons Inactivated November 1945 450th Bombardment Group (26 July – 15 October 1945) Retrained with (B-29 Superfortress) 720th, 721st, 722nd, and 723rd Bombardment Squadrons Inactivated 15 October 1945 467th Bombardment Group (8 September – December 1945) Retrained with (B-29 Superfortress) 788th, 789th, 790th and 791st Bombardment Squadrons Inactivated 4 October 1946 Even after the surrender of the Japanese in September 1945, the Harvard base remained active for a period, until the base was declared surplus property on 21 May 1946 and turned over to the State. All Army material was packed and shipped out. Other than the four hangars, most of the buildings, including barracks, gymnasium, picture show, Service Club, chapel, weather station, post exchange and many other building were moved away or dismantled and sold for the lumber. Most of the area that was once the Harvard Army Airfield has reverted to agriculture and the hangars are used for grain storage. In 1983, three of the hangars were destroyed by fire, which was started by careless use of a cutting torch by a pair of teenagers who were dismantling the first hangar for salvage. A handful of wartime buildings still exist on the former military airfield. The housing erected by the federal government on the northeast edge of Harvard for personnel stationed at the base, most commonly referred to by Harvardites as "The Courts" or "Courts Addition," has been a residential village for the citizens of Harvard for many years. Facilities Harvard State Airport covers at an elevation of 1,815 feet (553 m). It has two runways: 17/35 is 3,745 by 60 feet (1,141 x 18 m) asphalt; 14/32 is 3,900 by 150 feet (1,189 x 46 m) turf. In the year ending July 24, 2008 the airport had 1,570 aircraft operations, 99% general aviation and 1% military. See also List of airports in Nebraska Nebraska World War II army airfields References ArmyAirForces.Com Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World