 Carrier Air Group 8 ( CVG @-@ 8 ) was established on 15 September 1948 in response to the Berlin Blockade with newly qualified pilots and reservists who volunteered for active duty . VA @-@ 84 and VA @-@ 85 , the air group 's attack squadrons , began receiving Maulers in November and the last aircraft was delivered in January 1949 . Later that month the air group made a flyover of President Harry Truman 's Inauguration ceremony . The squadron conducted their qualifications aboard the Midway from 3 to 6 May with 10 Maulers crashing into the safety barrier between them . CVG @-@ 8 made a two @-@ week cruise aboard the Midway beginning on 27 June along the East Coast of the United States before it was disbanded in November after the peaceful resolution of the Berlin Blockade . 
