USAAF Units

The 23rd Fighter Group replaced the American Volunteer Group, operating from bases in China from the summer of 1942 until the end of the Second World War.

The Fourteenth Air Force (USAAF) operated from bases in China, supporting the Chinese army against the Japanese.

The 7th Bombardment Group had an unsettling start to the Second World War when some of its aircraft arrived at Pearl Harbor during the Japenese attack. It eventually settled down to operate as a B-24 unit over Burma.
The 22nd Bombardment Group began the war as a medium bomber group, supporting the campaign in New Guinea, before switching to the B-24 Liberator in 1944, supporting the invasion of the Philippines.
The 43rd Bombardment Group fought with the Fifth Air Force, first from Australia and then in the campaigns that saw the reconquest of New Guinea and the Philippines.
19 December
The 80th Fighter Group performed ground attack missions in India and Burma from September 1943 to the end of the Second World War.
18 December
The 311st Fighter Group was one of only three groups to use the A-36 dive bomber version of the P-51 Mustang, operating in Burma and China.
17 December
The 33rd Fighter Group was one of the more widely travelled American Fighter Groups of the Second World War, fighting in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, China and Burma
The 51st Fighter Group spent most of the Second World War defending the two ends of the "Hump", the air supply route between India and China.
The 81st Fighter Squadron took part in the North Africa and Italian campaigns of 1943 before moving to China to join the Fourteenth Air Force.
The 341st Bombardment Group operated B-25 Mitchell's from bases in China and India, attacking ground targets in Burma and ahipping from China
15 December
The 6th Bombardment Group had two separate existences spending 1919-1943 defending the Panama Canal, before being reformed as a B-29 unit in 1944-45, taking part in the bombardment of Japan.
The 11th Bombardment Group fought in the South Pacific with the B-17 and then in the central Pacific with the B-24.
The 28th Composite/ Bombardment Group spent the entire Second World War in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
The 30th Bombardment Group began the war patrolling off the west coast of the United States before joining the Seventh Air Force during the advance across the Central Pacific.
We also add a brief history of the 5th Bombardment Group during the Second World War, the first unit outside the continental United States to receive the B-17 Flying Fortress.