training on radar equipment. The pathfinder mission was to locate landing zones, where paratroopers were dropped to set up navigational aids to direct the airborne force to more accurate assaults. Aeromedical evacuation In January 1943, the command's 349th Air Evacuation Group was given the mission of individual training for flight surgeons, nurses and medical technicians who were to compose medical air evacuation squadrons and to provide operational training that would prepare these units for deployment to combat theaters. This type of organization was entirely new. The training was placed under the command in the expectation that evacuation squadrons would work closely with troop carrier units and would possess their own light aircraft., Despite the expectation that the 349th would act as an Operational Training Unit. experience showed that the work to be done was more like a school, and in June 1943, the 349th was disbanded and replaced by the AAF School of Air Evacuation. By early 1944, unit training had been completed and the school concentrated on individual training. In May, the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command was assigned responsibility for aeromedical evacuation in the United States and the school was transferred to it. In October 1944, the school became a department of the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Texas. To provided realistic field training for the school's students, I Troop Carrier Command maintained a detachment of aircraft at Randolph to support the school. Reassignment and disbanding Just before the end of the war in Europe, the command was reassigned to Continental Air Forces, as that headquarters became fully operational. Between December 1942 and August 1945, the command trained 4,608 aircrews for overseas service, It was disbanded on 4 November 1945 and its mission and personnel were transferred to IX Troop Carrier Command, which had returned from Europe to Stout Field on paper in September. Lineage Established as the Air Transport Command on 30 April 1942 Redesignated I Troop Carrier Command on 4 July 1942 Disbanded on 4 November 1945 Assignments Headquarters, United States Army Air Forces, 30 April 1942 Continental Air Forces, April 1945 – 4 November 1945 Components Wings 50th Transport Wing (later 50th Troop Carrier Wing): 30 April 1942 – c. 9 October 1943, 29 September 1945 – 21 March 1946 51st Transport Wing (later 51st Troop Carrier Wing): 1 June – c. 18 August 1942 52d Transport Wing (later 52d Troop Carrier Wing):