330th Aircraft Sustainment Group

330th Aircraft Sustainment Group
Active 1942-1944; 1944-1946; 1949-1951; 1952; 2005-2010
Country  United States
Branch  United States Air Force
Role Logistics management
Part of Air Force Materiel Command
Garrison/HQ Robins Air Force Base
Engagements Pacific Theater of Operations
Decorations Distinguished Unit Citation
Insignia
330th Aircraft Sustainment Group emblem[1]

The 330th Aircraft Sustainment Group was a group of the United States Air Force stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. It was last active in June 2010

History

World War II

The 330th Bombardment Group was constituted on 1 July 1942 at Salt Lake City Army Air Base, Utah. It was assigned to Second Air Force as a Consolidated B-24 Liberator Operational Training Unit (OTU) and later as a Replacement Training Unit (RTU). The group performed this training at Alamogordo Army Airfield in New Mexico, then later at Biggs Field near El Paso, Texas.[2]

With the drawdown of heavy bomber training in 1944, the group was redesignated as the 330th Bombardment Group, Very Heavy and became a Boeing B-29 Superfortress operational bomb group being assigned to the 314th Bombardment Wing, to be sent to the Pacific Theater as part of the war against the Japanese Empire. The group was assigned to Walker Army Air Field, Kansas for equipping and training.[2]

The group deployed to Guam in late 1944, and was assigned to XXI Bomber Command of the Twentieth Air Force. It entered combat on 12 Apr 1945 with an attack on the Hodogaya chemical plant at Koriyama, Japan. From April to May 1945, it struck airfields from which the Japanese were launching suicide planes against the invasion force at Okinawa. After that, operations were principally concerned with incendiary attacks against urban-industrial areas of Japan. It received a Distinguished Unit Citation for incendiary raids on the industrial sections of Tokushima and Gifu and for a strike against the hydroelectric power center at Kofu, Japan, in July 1945. Another DUC was received for attacking the Nakajima-Musashino aircraft engine plant near Tokyo in August 1945. The unit dropped food and supplies to Allied prisoners and participated in several show-of-force missions over Japan after the war.[2]

The Group remained in Western Pacific, although largely demobilized in the fall of 1945. Some aircraft were scrapped on Tinian; others flown to storage depots in the United States. the group was inactivated in December 1945.

Air Force Reserve

With the end of World War II, the 330th was allotted to the Air Force Reserve. It was redesignated as the 330th Bombardment Group, and stationed at March Air Force Base, California for training with Boeing B-29 Superfortresses as a corollary unit of the active-duty Strategic Air Command 22d Bombardment Group. The group was activated on 27 June 1949 and assigned to the 330th Bombardment Wing under the wing base organization system. As a result of the Korean War its personnel were activated into Federal Service on 1 May 1951. The group was inactivated on 15 June, while many of its personnel deployed to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa for combat duty.[2]

The 330th was again redesignated as the 330th Troop Carrier Group, Medium and assigned to the 1st Air Reserve District at Greater Pittsburgh Airport, Pennsylvania on 14 Jun 1952, when its parent wing replaced the 917th Reserve Training Wing there. One month later the group was inactivated and replaced by the 375th Troop Carrier Group, which had been released from active duty on 14 Jul 1952.[2]

Sustainment Group

Reactivated in 2005 as a depot support unit at Robins Air Force Base. The group managed sustainment activities for the Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft to ensure availability was adequate for the weapon system to fulfill its assigned missions. The 330th was inactivated on 30 July 2010.

Lineage

Activated on 6 July 1942
Inactivated on 1 Apr 1944
Inactivated on 3 January 1946
Activated in the reserve on 27 June 1949
Ordered to active duty on 1 May 1951
Inactivated on 16 June 1951
Activated in the reserve on 14 June 1952
Inactivated on 14 July 1952[2]
Activated on 4 March 2005
Inactivated on 30 July 2010

Assignments

Components

Stations
  • Walker Army Air Field, Kansas, 1 August 1944 - 7 January 1945
  • North Field, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, 18 February - 19 November 1945
  • Camp Anza, California, c. 18 - 27 December 1945
  • March Air Force Base, California, 27 June 1949 - 16 June 1951
  • Greater Pittsburgh Airport, Pennsylvania, 14 June - 14 July 1952[2]
  • Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, 4 March 2005 - 30 June 2010

Aircraft assigned

See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ The group uses the wing emblem with the group designation on the scroll. Air Force Instruction 84-105, Organizational Lineage, Honors and Heraldry, 19 March 2013, para 3.3.3
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Maurer, Combat Units, pp. 210-211
  3. ↑ See Ravenstein, p. 178 (date 330th Wing constituted)
  4. ↑ See Ravenstein, p. 178 (date 330th Wing redesignated)
  5. ↑ Department of the Air Force/MPM Letter 648q, 31 July 1985, Subject: Reconstitution, Redesignation, and Consolidation of Selected Air Force Organizations

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