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84th Combat Sustainment Group

January 01, 1970

The 84th Combat Sustainment Group is an inactive United States Air Force (USAF) group last assigned to the 84th Combat Sustainment Wing at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, where it was inactivated in 2010. The group was formed in 1942 as the 84th Bombardment Group, one of the first dive bomber units in the United States Army Air Corps and tested the Vultee Vengeance, proving that aircraft unsuitable as a dive bomber. As an Operational Training Unit, it was the parent for several other bombardment groups, but from 1943 until it was disbanded in 1944, trained replacement aircrews as a Replacement Training Unit designated the 84th Fighter-Bomber Group.

84th Combat Sustainment Group
Active1942–1944, 1949–1951, 1955–1963, 2005–2010
Country United States
Branch United States Air Force
TypeAir Defense
Part ofAir Force Materiel Command
Ogden Air Logistics Center
84th Combat Sustainment Wing
Motto(s)Cursum Perficio Latin
(I Accomplish my Course)
Insignia
Emblem of the 84th Combat Sustainment Group[note 2]
84th Fighter Group emblem (Approved 22 January 1943)[1]

The group was again active as a fighter group from 1949 to 1951 in the Air Force Reserves, with no equipment of its own, but using that of the Regular 52d Fighter-All Weather Group until it was called to active duty in 1951 and its personnel used to man other units.

In 1955, as part of an Air Defense Command program to revive fighter units that had served in World War II, the group became the 84th Fighter Group (Air Defense) and served as the USAF host at Geiger Field and served in an air defense role in the northwestern United States until inactivating in 1963.

The group changed missions again, becoming a logistics unit when activated in 2006 as part of a major reorganization of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC). It was inactivated in 2010, when this reorganization was reversed, and AFMC returned to a more traditional organization.

History edit

World War II edit

Bombardment Group edit

 
Vultee Vengeance in flight Dec 1942

The group was activated in 1942 as the 84th Bombardment Group (Light) at Hunter Field, Georgia, and equipped with Douglas A-24 Banshee dive bombers.[1] The 301st,[2] 302d,[3] 303d,[4] and 304th Bombardment Squadrons[5] were assigned.[1] It received its initial cadre and equipment from the 3d Bombardment Group.[6] The group was assigned the first Army Air Forces (AAF) squadron expressly designated for dive bombing.[6] It operated briefly with Vultee V-72 (A-31 Vengeance) aircraft, but its operations showed this aircraft was unsuitable for dive bombing.[6] The group served as the parent for several other light bombardment groups[note 3] and also trained pilots from Chile.[6]

Fighter-Bomber Group edit

 
P-47 from a US based RTU

In 1943, the group was redesignated as the 84th Fighter-Bomber Group as were other AAF single engine bombardment groups, and re-equipped with Republic P-47 Thunderbolts.[1] As a result of this redesignation, its squadrons were renumbered as the 496th, 497th, 498th, and 491st Fighter-Bomber Squadrons, respectively. During World War II, the 84th Group served as an Operational Training Unit (OTU) until October 1943.[2][3][4][5] The OTU program involved the use of an oversized parent unit to provide cadres to "satellite groups."[7] During the fall of 1943, group operations dwindled and by the end of September 1943 only five aircraft were assigned to the group.[8]

The group then became a Replacement Training Unit (RTU) and also participated occasionally in demonstrations and maneuvers.[1] RTUs were also oversized units, but with the mission of training individual pilots or aircrews.[7] In performing this mission, the group assumed a split operation, with group headquarters[1] and the 491st[5] and 497th Squadrons[3] moving to Harding Field, Louisiana, while the 496th[2] and 498th Squadrons[4] moved to Hammond Army Air Field, Louisiana in October and November 1943 and Abilene Army Air Field, Texas in February 1944.[1]

However, the AAF found that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were proving less well adapted to the training mission in the US. Accordingly a more functional system was adopted in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit.[9] The group was, therefore, disbanded in April 1944[1] and replaced at Harding by the 236th AAF Base Unit (Combat Crew Training School, Fighter)[10] as the Army Air Forces disbanded its units in the US that were not programmed to be transferred overseas. At the same time, the 261st AAF Base Unit (Combat Crew Training School, Fighter) took over the personnel, equipment and mission of the squadrons at Abilene.[11]

Cold War edit

Continental Air Command edit

 
F-82 of the 52d Fighter Group[note 4]

The May 1949 Air Force Reserve program called for a new type of unit, the corollary unit, which was a reserve unit integrated with an active duty unit. The plan called for corollary units at 107 locations. It was viewed as the best method to train reservists by mixing them with an existing regular unit to perform duties alongside the regular unit. [12] As part of this program, the group was reconstituted as the 84th Fighter Group, All Weather and activated at Mitchel Air Force Base, New York in the Air Force Reserves to train as a fighter corollary unit of the 52d Fighter Group of the regular Air Force, moving with the 52d to McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey a few months later.[1] The group was apparently undermanned and thus performed very little training. During its only 2-week summer encampment (12–26 June 1950), the group had only four pilots capable of flying the 52d's North American F-82 Twin Mustangs provided for training the 84th. Like other corollary units, the 84th Group seems to have been poorly manned, and the parent 52d Fighter-All Weather Wing made little use of its corollary units, focusing on its combat mission instead. The 84th Group was ordered to active service on 1 June 1951, inactivated the next day, and its few people became "fillers" for the 52d Wing or, if there was no vacancy in the 52d, for other USAF units.[1][13]

Air Defense Command edit

 
F-86D Sabre of the group's 497th FIS

The group was redesignated the 84th Fighter Group (Air Defense) and reactivated in 1955[1] at Geiger Field, WA to replace the 530th Air Defense Group[14] as part of Air Defense Command's Project Arrow, which was designed to bring back on the active list the fighter units which had compiled memorable records in the two world wars.[15] It was assigned the 497th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (FIS), which moved to Geiger from Portland International Airport and the newly activated 498th FIS. These two squadrons took over the equipment and personnel of the inactivating 440th FIS[16] and 520th FIS.[17] Both squadrons flew radar equipped and Mighty Mouse rocket armed North American F-86 Sabres.[18]

 
F-102A Delta Dagger of the 498th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron[note 5]

The group provided air defense and acted as USAF host organization at Geiger. It was assigned several support organizations to perform its host duties, including communications, base operations, law enforcement, housing and food services.[19][20][21] In February 1957, the 498th FIS upgraded to Convair F-102 Delta Daggers, which were equipped with data link for interception control through the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment system. The 497th FIS, however, continued to fly Sabres until it moved to Europe in June 1958 and was reassigned away from the group.[18] In July 1959, the group again upgraded to Convair F-106 Delta Darts.[18]

On 22 October 1962, before President John F. Kennedy told Americans that missiles were in place in Cuba, the group dispersed a portion of its force, equipped with nuclear tipped missiles to Paine Air Force Base at the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis.[22] These planes returned after the crisis. The group was inactivated shortly thereafter, in July 1963[1] and its combat squadron transferred to McChord Air Force Base, Washington and the 325th Fighter Wing (Air Defense).[citation needed]

Twenty-first century edit

The group was reactivated in 2005 as a logistics support group at Hill Air Force Base, Utah as part of Air Force Materiel Command reorganization, which replaced that command's traditional staff agency organizations with wings and groups. It added component squadrons the following year. The 84th Combat Sustainment Group developed, acquired, and sustained nineteen major command, control, communication, and intelligence systems, space ground segments and presidential telecommunications systems. It served the National Command Authority, the Services, combatant commands, federal agencies, and foreign sales customers. It managed systems valued at over $3.5B and provided spare parts for fielded systems worldwide.[23] In 2010 the group was inactivated when AFMC returned to its traditional organization.[24]

Lineage edit

  • Constituted as the 84th Bombardment Group (Light) on 13 January 1942
Activated on 10 February 1942
Redesignated 84th Bombardment Group (Dive) 27 July 1942[note 6]
Redesignated 84th Fighter-Bomber Group 10 August 1943[note 7]
Disbanded on 1 April 1944
  • Reconstituted and redesignated 84th Fighter Group, All Weather on 26 May 1949
Activated in the Reserve on 1 June 1949
Redesignated 84th Fighter All-Weather Group on 1 March 1950
Ordered into active service on 1 June 1951
Inactivated on 2 June 1951.
  • Redesignated 84th Fighter Group (Air Defense) on 20 June 1955
Activated on 18 August 1955[25]
Inactivated on 15 July 1963[26]
  • Redesignated 84th Tactical Fighter Group on 31 July 1985 (remained inactive)[26]
  • Redesignated 84th Space and Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Sustainment Group 15 January 2005[27]
Activated 24 February 2005[27]
Redesignated 84th Combat Sustainment Group 28 April 2006[28]
Inactivated 30 June 2010[24]

Assignments edit

Components edit

Operational Squadrons

Support Units

Stations edit

Aircraft edit

  • Vultee V-72 Vengeance, 1942
  • Douglas A-24 Dauntless, 1942–1943
  • Bell P-39 Airacobra, 1943
  • Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, 1943–1944
  • North American F-82 Twin Mustang, 1949–1951
  • North American F-86D Sabre, 1955–1958[25]
  • Convair F-102A Delta Dagger, 1957–1959[18]
  • Convair TF-102B Delta Dagger, 1957–1959[18]
  • F-106A Delta Dart 1959–1963[18]

Campaigns edit

Campaign Streamer Campaign Dates Notes
  American Theater without inscription 10 February 1942 – 1 April 1944 84th Bombardment Group (later 84th Fighter-Bomber Group)

See also edit

References edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Aircraft are Convair F-106A-80-CO serials 57-2470 and 57-2481 and F-106A-75-CO serial 57-2462. 57-2481 was converted to a QF-106 and was shot down by an AIM-120 on 25 July 1995. 57-2470 was at the Pima Air Museum by 28 January 1991 then converted to a QF-106 and shot down by AIM-120 on 1 February 1994. 57-2462 crashed on 21 December 1961.
  2. ^ Group uses wing emblem with group name on scroll. AFI 84-105, paragraph 3.3.3.
  3. ^ These units were the 85th, 311th, 312th, 319th, 405th and 407th Bombardment Groups Abstract, 84 Bombardment Group 1943 History.
  4. ^ Aircraft is North American F-82F Twin Mustang serial 46-414 assigned to the 2d Fighter All Weather Squadron
  5. ^ Aircraft is Convair F-102A-55-CO Delta Dagger serial 56-1044 at Geiger Field, Washington in 1956
  6. ^ This is the date its component squadrons were redesignated as Dive Bomber Squadrons. Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 591–600.
  7. ^ This is the date its component squadrons were redesignated as Fighter-Bomber Squadrons. Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 591–600.

Citations edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Maurer, Combat Units, pp. 150–151
  2. ^ a b c d Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 598
  3. ^ a b c d Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 599–600
  4. ^ a b c d Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp.600–602
  5. ^ a b c d Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 591–592
  6. ^ a b c d "Abstract, History 84 Bombardment Group to Jul 1943". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  7. ^ a b Craven & Cate, Vol. VI, Introduction, p. xxxvi
  8. ^ "Abstract, History 84 Fighter-Bomber Group Jan 1942 – Sep 1943". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  9. ^ Craven & Cate, Vol. VI, p. 75
  10. ^ "Abstract, History Harding Field, Louisiana Apr 1944". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  11. ^ "Abstract, History Abilene AAF, Texas, Apr 1944". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  12. ^ Cantwell, p. 73
  13. ^ Cantwell, pp. 79, 110
  14. ^ Cornett & Johnson, p. 82
  15. ^ Buss, et al., p.6
  16. ^ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 545
  17. ^ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 624
  18. ^ a b c d e f Cornett & Johnson, p. 130
  19. ^ a b "Abstract, History 84 Air Base Squadron 1958". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  20. ^ a b Cornett & Johnson, p. 145
  21. ^ a b "Abstract, History 84 Infirmary Jul [sic]-Dec 1955". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  22. ^ McMullen, pp. 10–12
  23. ^ (PDF). Ogden ALC Public Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  24. ^ a b c d e f g Air Force Organization Status Change Report June 2010, Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL
  25. ^ a b c Lineage information, including stations, components and aircraft through 1958 from Maurer, Combat Units, pp. 150–151
  26. ^ a b Department of the Air Force/MPM Letter 648q, 31 July 1985, Subject: Reconstitution, Redesignation, and Consolidation of Selected Air Force Organizations
  27. ^ a b Air Force Organization Status Change Report Feb 2005, Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL
  28. ^ a b c d e f Air Force Organization Status Change Report April 2006, Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL
  29. ^ a b "Abstract, History 3 Reconnaissance Command to 30 Sep 1943". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 28 April 2015. (All bombardment units transferred from III Air Support Command when redesignated III Reconnaissance Command 18 August 1943.)
  30. ^ See Maurer, Combat Units, p. 441
  31. ^ See Maurer, Combat Units, p. 406 (Activation of wing and assignment of groups.)
  32. ^ a b c d e f Cornett & Johnson, p. 74
  33. ^ Robertson, Patsy (20 June 2011). . Air Force Historical Research Agency. Archived from the original on 14 September 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  34. ^ "Abstract, History 84 Dispensary Jan–Jun 1963". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  35. ^ Cornett & Johnson, p. 137

Bibliography edit

  This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

  • Buss, Lydus H.(ed), Sturm, Thomas A., Volan, Denys, and McMullen, Richard F., History of Continental Air Defense Command and Air Defense Command July to December 1955, Directorate of Historical Services, Air Defense Command, Ent AFB, CO, (1956)
  • Cantwell, Gerald T. (1997). Citizen Airmen: a History of the Air Force Reserve, 1946–1994. Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program. ISBN 0-16049-269-6. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  • Cornett, Lloyd H; Johnson, Mildred W (1980). (PDF). Peterson AFB, CO: Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 November 2006. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  • Craven, Wesley F; Cate, James L, eds. (1955). The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol. VI, Men & Planes. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. LCCN 48-3657.
  • Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961]. Air Force Combat Units of World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-02-1. LCCN 61060979.
  • Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.
  • McMullen, Richard F. (1964) "The Fighter Interceptor Force 1962–1964" ADC Historical Study No. 27, Air Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base, CO (Confidential, declassified 22 March 2000)
  • Air Force Instruction 84-105, Organizational Lineage, Honors and Heraldry, 19 March 2013

Further reading edit

  • Leonard, Barry (2009). (PDF). Vol. II, 1955–1972. Fort McNair, DC: Center for Military History. ISBN 978-1-4379-2131-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  • Ravenstein, Charles A (1984). Air Force Combat Wings, Lineage & Honors Histories 1947–1977. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9.
  • Redmond, Kent C.; Smith, Thomas M. (2000). From Whirlwind to MITRE: The R&D Story of The SAGE Air Defense Computer. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-18201-0.

January 01, 1970
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The 84th Combat Sustainment Group is an inactive United States Air Force USAF group last assigned to the 84th Combat Sustainment Wing at Hill Air Force Base Utah where it was inactivated in 2010 The group was formed in 1942 as the 84th Bombardment Group one of the first dive bomber units in the United States Army Air Corps and tested the Vultee Vengeance proving that aircraft unsuitable as a dive bomber As an Operational Training Unit it was the parent for several other bombardment groups but from 1943 until it was disbanded in 1944 trained replacement aircrews as a Replacement Training Unit designated the 84th Fighter Bomber Group 84th Combat Sustainment GroupF 106 Delta Darts of the 498th Fighter Interceptor Squadron note 1 Active1942 1944 1949 1951 1955 1963 2005 2010Country United StatesBranch United States Air ForceTypeAir DefensePart ofAir Force Materiel CommandOgden Air Logistics Center84th Combat Sustainment WingMotto s Cursum Perficio Latin I Accomplish my Course InsigniaEmblem of the 84th Combat Sustainment Group note 2 84th Fighter Group emblem Approved 22 January 1943 1 The group was again active as a fighter group from 1949 to 1951 in the Air Force Reserves with no equipment of its own but using that of the Regular 52d Fighter All Weather Group until it was called to active duty in 1951 and its personnel used to man other units In 1955 as part of an Air Defense Command program to revive fighter units that had served in World War II the group became the 84th Fighter Group Air Defense and served as the USAF host at Geiger Field and served in an air defense role in the northwestern United States until inactivating in 1963 The group changed missions again becoming a logistics unit when activated in 2006 as part of a major reorganization of Air Force Materiel Command AFMC It was inactivated in 2010 when this reorganization was reversed and AFMC returned to a more traditional organization Contents 1 History 1 1 World War II 1 1 1 Bombardment Group 1 1 2 Fighter Bomber Group 1 2 Cold War 1 2 1 Continental Air Command 1 2 2 Air Defense Command 1 3 Twenty first century 2 Lineage 2 1 Assignments 2 2 Components 2 3 Stations 2 4 Aircraft 2 5 Campaigns 3 See also 4 References 4 1 Notes 4 2 Citations 4 3 Bibliography 5 Further readingHistory editWorld War II edit Bombardment Group edit nbsp Vultee Vengeance in flight Dec 1942 The group was activated in 1942 as the 84th Bombardment Group Light at Hunter Field Georgia and equipped with Douglas A 24 Banshee dive bombers 1 The 301st 2 302d 3 303d 4 and 304th Bombardment Squadrons 5 were assigned 1 It received its initial cadre and equipment from the 3d Bombardment Group 6 The group was assigned the first Army Air Forces AAF squadron expressly designated for dive bombing 6 It operated briefly with Vultee V 72 A 31 Vengeance aircraft but its operations showed this aircraft was unsuitable for dive bombing 6 The group served as the parent for several other light bombardment groups note 3 and also trained pilots from Chile 6 Fighter Bomber Group edit nbsp P 47 from a US based RTU In 1943 the group was redesignated as the 84th Fighter Bomber Group as were other AAF single engine bombardment groups and re equipped with Republic P 47 Thunderbolts 1 As a result of this redesignation its squadrons were renumbered as the 496th 497th 498th and 491st Fighter Bomber Squadrons respectively During World War II the 84th Group served as an Operational Training Unit OTU until October 1943 2 3 4 5 The OTU program involved the use of an oversized parent unit to provide cadres to satellite groups 7 During the fall of 1943 group operations dwindled and by the end of September 1943 only five aircraft were assigned to the group 8 The group then became a Replacement Training Unit RTU and also participated occasionally in demonstrations and maneuvers 1 RTUs were also oversized units but with the mission of training individual pilots or aircrews 7 In performing this mission the group assumed a split operation with group headquarters 1 and the 491st 5 and 497th Squadrons 3 moving to Harding Field Louisiana while the 496th 2 and 498th Squadrons 4 moved to Hammond Army Air Field Louisiana in October and November 1943 and Abilene Army Air Field Texas in February 1944 1 However the AAF found that standard military units based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were proving less well adapted to the training mission in the US Accordingly a more functional system was adopted in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit 9 The group was therefore disbanded in April 1944 1 and replaced at Harding by the 236th AAF Base Unit Combat Crew Training School Fighter 10 as the Army Air Forces disbanded its units in the US that were not programmed to be transferred overseas At the same time the 261st AAF Base Unit Combat Crew Training School Fighter took over the personnel equipment and mission of the squadrons at Abilene 11 Cold War edit Continental Air Command edit nbsp F 82 of the 52d Fighter Group note 4 The May 1949 Air Force Reserve program called for a new type of unit the corollary unit which was a reserve unit integrated with an active duty unit The plan called for corollary units at 107 locations It was viewed as the best method to train reservists by mixing them with an existing regular unit to perform duties alongside the regular unit 12 As part of this program the group was reconstituted as the 84th Fighter Group All Weather and activated at Mitchel Air Force Base New York in the Air Force Reserves to train as a fighter corollary unit of the 52d Fighter Group of the regular Air Force moving with the 52d to McGuire Air Force Base New Jersey a few months later 1 The group was apparently undermanned and thus performed very little training During its only 2 week summer encampment 12 26 June 1950 the group had only four pilots capable of flying the 52d s North American F 82 Twin Mustangs provided for training the 84th Like other corollary units the 84th Group seems to have been poorly manned and the parent 52d Fighter All Weather Wing made little use of its corollary units focusing on its combat mission instead The 84th Group was ordered to active service on 1 June 1951 inactivated the next day and its few people became fillers for the 52d Wing or if there was no vacancy in the 52d for other USAF units 1 13 Air Defense Command edit nbsp F 86D Sabre of the group s 497th FIS The group was redesignated the 84th Fighter Group Air Defense and reactivated in 1955 1 at Geiger Field WA to replace the 530th Air Defense Group 14 as part of Air Defense Command s Project Arrow which was designed to bring back on the active list the fighter units which had compiled memorable records in the two world wars 15 It was assigned the 497th Fighter Interceptor Squadron FIS which moved to Geiger from Portland International Airport and the newly activated 498th FIS These two squadrons took over the equipment and personnel of the inactivating 440th FIS 16 and 520th FIS 17 Both squadrons flew radar equipped and Mighty Mouse rocket armed North American F 86 Sabres 18 nbsp F 102A Delta Dagger of the 498th Fighter Interceptor Squadron note 5 The group provided air defense and acted as USAF host organization at Geiger It was assigned several support organizations to perform its host duties including communications base operations law enforcement housing and food services 19 20 21 In February 1957 the 498th FIS upgraded to Convair F 102 Delta Daggers which were equipped with data link for interception control through the Semi Automatic Ground Environment system The 497th FIS however continued to fly Sabres until it moved to Europe in June 1958 and was reassigned away from the group 18 In July 1959 the group again upgraded to Convair F 106 Delta Darts 18 On 22 October 1962 before President John F Kennedy told Americans that missiles were in place in Cuba the group dispersed a portion of its force equipped with nuclear tipped missiles to Paine Air Force Base at the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis 22 These planes returned after the crisis The group was inactivated shortly thereafter in July 1963 1 and its combat squadron transferred to McChord Air Force Base Washington and the 325th Fighter Wing Air Defense citation needed Twenty first century edit The group was reactivated in 2005 as a logistics support group at Hill Air Force Base Utah as part of Air Force Materiel Command reorganization which replaced that command s traditional staff agency organizations with wings and groups It added component squadrons the following year The 84th Combat Sustainment Group developed acquired and sustained nineteen major command control communication and intelligence systems space ground segments and presidential telecommunications systems It served the National Command Authority the Services combatant commands federal agencies and foreign sales customers It managed systems valued at over 3 5B and provided spare parts for fielded systems worldwide 23 In 2010 the group was inactivated when AFMC returned to its traditional organization 24 Lineage editConstituted as the 84th Bombardment Group Light on 13 January 1942 Activated on 10 February 1942 Redesignated 84th Bombardment Group Dive 27 July 1942 note 6 Redesignated 84th Fighter Bomber Group 10 August 1943 note 7 Disbanded on 1 April 1944 Reconstituted and redesignated 84th Fighter Group All Weather on 26 May 1949 Activated in the Reserve on 1 June 1949 Redesignated 84th Fighter All Weather Group on 1 March 1950 Ordered into active service on 1 June 1951 Inactivated on 2 June 1951 Redesignated 84th Fighter Group Air Defense on 20 June 1955 Activated on 18 August 1955 25 Inactivated on 15 July 1963 26 Redesignated 84th Tactical Fighter Group on 31 July 1985 remained inactive 26 Redesignated 84th Space and Command Control Communications and Intelligence Sustainment Group 15 January 2005 27 Activated 24 February 2005 27 Redesignated 84th Combat Sustainment Group 28 April 2006 28 Inactivated 30 June 2010 24 Assignments edit III Ground Air Support Command later III Air Support Command 10 February 1942 29 30 72d Bombardment Operational Training Wing later 72d Fighter Wing 20 August 1943 1 April 1944 29 31 84th Fighter Wing All Weather later 84th Fighter All Weather Wing 1 June 1949 1 June 1951 32 9th Air Division 18 August 1955 32 25th Air Division 15 August 1958 32 4700th Air Defense Wing 1 September 1958 32 Spokane Air Defense Sector 15 May 1960 15 July 1963 32 84th Combat Sustainment Wing 24 February 2005 30 June 2010 24 28 Components edit Operational Squadrons 301st Bombardment Squadron later 496th Fighter Bomber Squadron 496th Fighter Squadron All Weather 496th Fighter All Weather Squadron 10 February 1942 1 April 1944 1 June 1949 2 June 1951 2 302d Bombardment Squadron later 497th Fighter Bomber Squadron 497th Fighter Interceptor Squadron 10 February 1942 1 April 1944 18 August 1955 5 July 1958 3 33 303d Bombardment Squadron later 498th Fighter Bomber Squadron 498th Fighter Interceptor Squadron 10 February 1942 1 April 1944 18 August 1955 15 July 1963 4 304th Bombardment Squadron later 491st Fighter Bomber Squadron 10 February 1942 1 April 1944 5 Support Units 84th USAF Infirmary later 84th USAF Dispensary 18 August 1955 15 July 1963 21 34 84th Air Base Squadron 18 August 1955 15 July 1963 19 84th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron 8 November 1958 15 July 1963 35 84th Materiel Squadron 18 August 1955 15 July 1963 20 500th Combat Sustainment Squadron 28 April 2006 30 June 2010 24 28 501st Combat Sustainment Squadron 28 April 2006 30 June 2010 24 28 500d Combat Sustainment Squadron 28 April 2006 28 April 2008 24 28 Stations edit Hunter Field Georgia 10 February 1942 Drew Field Florida c 7 February 1943 Harding Field Louisiana 4 October 1943 1 April 1944 Mitchel Air Force Base New York 1 June 1949 McGuire Air Force Base New Jersey 10 October 1949 2 June 1951 Geiger Field later Spokane International Airport Washington 18 August 1955 15 July 1963 25 32 Hill Air Force Base Utah 24 February 2005 30 June 2010 24 28 Aircraft edit Vultee V 72 Vengeance 1942 Douglas A 24 Dauntless 1942 1943 Bell P 39 Airacobra 1943 Republic P 47 Thunderbolt 1943 1944 North American F 82 Twin Mustang 1949 1951 North American F 86D Sabre 1955 1958 25 Convair F 102A Delta Dagger 1957 1959 18 Convair TF 102B Delta Dagger 1957 1959 18 F 106A Delta Dart 1959 1963 18 Campaigns edit Campaign Streamer Campaign Dates Notes nbsp American Theater without inscription 10 February 1942 1 April 1944 84th Bombardment Group later 84th Fighter Bomber Group See also editList of United States Air Force Groups Aerospace Defense Command Fighter Squadrons List of F 86 Sabre units List of F 106 Delta Dart units of the United States Air ForceReferences editNotes edit Aircraft are Convair F 106A 80 CO serials 57 2470 and 57 2481 and F 106A 75 CO serial 57 2462 57 2481 was converted to a QF 106 and was shot down by an AIM 120 on 25 July 1995 57 2470 was at the Pima Air Museum by 28 January 1991 then converted to a QF 106 and shot down by AIM 120 on 1 February 1994 57 2462 crashed on 21 December 1961 Group uses wing emblem with group name on scroll AFI 84 105 paragraph 3 3 3 These units were the 85th 311th 312th 319th 405th and 407th Bombardment Groups Abstract 84 Bombardment Group 1943 History Aircraft is North American F 82F Twin Mustang serial 46 414 assigned to the 2d Fighter All Weather Squadron Aircraft is Convair F 102A 55 CO Delta Dagger serial 56 1044 at Geiger Field Washington in 1956 This is the date its component squadrons were redesignated as Dive Bomber Squadrons Maurer Combat Squadrons pp 591 600 This is the date its component squadrons were redesignated as Fighter Bomber Squadrons Maurer Combat Squadrons pp 591 600 Citations edit a b c d e f g h i j k l Maurer Combat Units pp 150 151 a b c d Maurer Combat Squadrons p 598 a b c d Maurer Combat Squadrons pp 599 600 a b c d Maurer Combat Squadrons pp 600 602 a b c d Maurer Combat Squadrons pp 591 592 a b c d Abstract History 84 Bombardment Group to Jul 1943 Air Force History Index Retrieved 22 May 2012 a b Craven amp Cate Vol VI Introduction p xxxvi Abstract History 84 Fighter Bomber Group Jan 1942 Sep 1943 Air Force History Index Retrieved 28 April 2015 Craven amp Cate Vol VI p 75 Abstract History Harding Field Louisiana Apr 1944 Air Force History Index Retrieved 22 May 2012 Abstract History Abilene AAF Texas Apr 1944 Air Force History Index Retrieved 13 November 2012 Cantwell p 73 Cantwell pp 79 110 Cornett amp Johnson p 82 Buss et al p 6 Maurer Combat Squadrons p 545 Maurer Combat Squadrons p 624 a b c d e f Cornett amp Johnson p 130 a b Abstract History 84 Air Base Squadron 1958 Air Force History Index Retrieved 28 April 2015 a b Cornett amp Johnson p 145 a b Abstract History 84 Infirmary Jul sic Dec 1955 Air Force History Index Retrieved 28 April 2015 McMullen pp 10 12 Ogden Air Logistics Center Briefing PDF Ogden ALC Public Affairs Archived from the original PDF on 15 September 2012 Retrieved 27 April 2015 a b c d e f g Air Force Organization Status Change Report June 2010 Research Division Air Force Historical Research Agency Maxwell AFB AL a b c Lineage information including stations components and aircraft through 1958 from Maurer Combat Units pp 150 151 a b Department of the Air Force MPM Letter 648q 31 July 1985 Subject Reconstitution Redesignation and Consolidation of Selected Air Force Organizations a b Air Force Organization Status Change Report Feb 2005 Research Division Air Force Historical Research Agency Maxwell AFB AL a b c d e f Air Force Organization Status Change Report April 2006 Research Division Air Force Historical Research Agency Maxwell AFB AL a b Abstract History 3 Reconnaissance Command to 30 Sep 1943 Air Force History Index Retrieved 28 April 2015 All bombardment units transferred from III Air Support Command when redesignated III Reconnaissance Command 18 August 1943 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