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The 383rd Bombardment Group, USAAF, went through two incarnations during the Second World War, first as a training unit and then as a B-29 unit in the Eighth Air Force in the Pacific.
The group was activated on 3 November 1942 and was equipped with both the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator. It was used as an operational training unit, before becoming a replacement training unit later in the war. The group was inactivated on 1 April 1944.
It was reactivated on 28 August 1944 and equipped with the B-29. It was assigned to the Second Air Force while in training, but was then one of the units allocated to the Eighth Air Force when that organisation began to move from Europe to the Pacific. The group reached the Pacific after the end of the war, and returned to the United States in December 1945. It was inactivated on 3 January 1946.
To Follow
1942-1944: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 Liberator
1944-1945: Boeing B-29 Superfortress
| 28 October 1942 | Constituted as 383rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) |
| 3 November 1942 | Activated and assigned to Second Air Force |
| 1 April 1944 | Inactivated |
| 28 August 1948 | Activated as 383rd Bombardment Group (Very Heavy) |
| Assigned to Second Air Force | |
| August-September 1945 | To Pacific and Eighth Air Force |
| December 1945 | To United States |
| 3 January 1946 | Inactivated |
Maj Elliot Vandevanter
Jr: 27 Nov 1942-unkn
Lt Col John P
Proctor: 1944
Col Richard M Montgomery:
8 Dec 1944-unkn
Salt Lake City AAB, Utah:
3 Nov 1942
Rapid City AAB, SD: 12 Nov
1942
Geiger Field, Wash: 20 Jun 1943
Peterson Field, Colo: 26 Oct 1943-1 Apr
1944
Dalhart AAFld, Tex: 28 Aug 1944
Walker AAFld, Kan: 14 Jan-11 Aug 1945
Tinian: 12 Sep-19 Dec 1945
Camp Anza,
Calif: 2-3 Jan 1946
540th Bombardment Squadron: 1942-44
541st Bombardment Squadron: 1942-44
542nd Bombardment Squadron: 1942-44
543rd Bombardment Squadron: 1942-44
876th Bombardment Squadron: 1944-46
880th Bombardment Squadron: 1944-46
884th Bombardment Squadron: 1944-46
1944-45: 316th Bombardment Wing