Operations Groups, a Mission Support Group, a Maintenance Group, and a Medical Group) and about 3,400 personnel. Operations during OEF included a joint airborne assault with the 86th Contingency Response Group from Ramstein Air Base, Germany that included twenty airmen from the wing parachuting into northern Iraq with more than 1,000 soldiers of the Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade. Their skills helped prepare and open an airfield for C-17 Globemaster IIIs that delivered more than 1 million pounds of people and cargo every night into the operations area. Approximately 500 forward air controllers were provided by the wing's air support operations groups to Army ground forces during OEF, and airmen from the 484th accompanied U.S. forces when they entered the streets of Baghdad in March 2003. Comments by Major Birch in his Air University paper strongly suggest that the 484th AEW was a temporary organization created specifically for the Iraq campaign and that the wing was inactivated after the invasion had been successful. Lineage 484th Bombardment Group Constituted as the 484th Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 14 September 1943 Activated on 20 September 1943 Redesignated 484th Bombardment Group, Heavy on 28 January 1944 Redesignated 484th Bombardment Group (Pathfinder) on 14 February 1944 Redesignated 484th Bombardment Group, Heavy on 11 November 1944 Inactivated on 25 July 1945 Consolidated on 31 January 1984 with the 484th Bombardment Wing as the 484th Bombardment Wing 484th Wing Constituted as the 484th Bombardment Wing Heavy on 15 November 1962 and activated (not organized) Organized on 1 February 1963 Discontinued and inactivated, on 25 March 1967. Consolidated on 31 January 1984 with the 484th Bombardment Group (remained inactive) Redesignated as 484th Air Expeditionary Wing, and converted to provisional status: 13 January 2003 Activated on 24 January 2003 Inactivated in April 2003 Assignments Second Air Force, 20 September 1943 (attached to: 17th Bombardment Operational Training Wing, 20 September – November 1943) 49th Bombardment Wing, ca. 14 March 1944 North African Division, Air Transport Command, 25 May 1945 – 25 July 1945 Strategic Air Command, 15 November 1962 (not organized) 822d Air Division, 1 February 1963 823d Air Division, 2 September 1966 – 25 March 1967. Air Combat Command (attached to United States Air Forces Central), 24 January 2003 – Apr 2003 Components Groups 18th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group, 24 January 2003 – Apr 2003 4th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group, 24 January 2003 – Apr 2003 3d Expeditionary