to B-29s, December 1944 490th Bombardment Group RAF Eye, May 1944-October 1944 848th Bombardment Squadron 849th Bombardment Squadron 850th Bombardment Squadron 851st Bombardment Squadron Converted to B-17s, August 1944 491st Bombardment Group RAF Metfield, RAF North Pickenham, April 1944-July 1945 852d Bombardment Squadron 853d Bombardment Squadron 854th Bombardment Squadron 855th Bombardment Squadron Inactivated September 1945 492d Bombardment Group Unit deployed to RAF North Pickenham, January 1944. Re-designation of 801st Bombardment Group (Provisional), August 1944. Unit at RAF Harrington until August 1945. 856th Bombardment Squadron 857th Bombardment Squadron 858th Bombardment Squadron 859th Bombardment Squadron Converted to B-29s, August 1945 493d Bombardment Group RAF Debach, RAF Wormingford, April 1944-August 1945 860th Bombardment Squadron 861st Bombardment Squadron 862d Bombardment Squadron 863d Bombardment Squadron Converted to B-17s, May 1944 Ninth Air Force IX Bomber Command operated Liberators from airfields in Egypt; Libya and Tunisia during the Western Desert Campaign (1942–1943). Transferred B-24s to Twelfth Air Force in October 1943; reassigned to England to become tactical air force supporting American First Army (IX Tactical Air Command), Third Army (XIX Tactical Air Command), and Ninth Army (XXIX Tactical Air Command). 98th Bombardment Group Deployed to Middle East July 1942, First B-24Ds to be deployed overseas (Halverson Detachment) Stationed in BritishPalestine, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia Participated in August 1, 1943 Attack on Ploesti Oilfields, Romania 343d Bombardment Squadron 344th Bombardment Squadron 345th Bombardment Squadron 415th Bombardment Squadron Transferred to Twelfth (October), then Fifteenth Air Force, November 1943 376th Bombardment Group Deployed to Middle East October 1942 Stationed in BritishPalestine, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia Participated in August 1, 1943 Attack on Ploesti Oilfields, Romania 512th Bombardment Squadron 513th Bombardment Squadron 514th Bombardment Squadron 515th Bombardment Squadron Transferred to Twelfth (October), then Fifteenth Air Force, November 1943 Tenth Air Force Constituted February 1942. Moved to India March–May 1942. Primary USAAF Air Force in the China-Burma-India theater. 7th Bombardment Group Formed September 1918; deployed to Philippines September 1940; withdrawn to Australia late December 1941; combat in Java Jan-March 1942; deployed to India. Transitioned from B-17C/Ds to B-24s at Karachi, March 1942 9th Bombardment Squadron 436th Bombardment Squadron 492d Bombardment Squadron 493d Bombardment Squadron Inactivated December 1945 Eleventh Air Force Formed February 1942. Based in Alaska Territory. Engaged in combat with B-24s during Aleutian Campaign (1942–1943). First B-24 raid on Japanese Home Islands in 1943. 28th Composite Group Received LB-30s and B-24s at Elmendorf Field, Alaska, 1942 21st Bombardment Squadron 36th Bombardment Squadron