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The 329th Bomb Group (and its successor designations) was the major operational training unit (OTU) at Columbia AAB during World War II, providing crew and replacement training in B-25s until 1 May 1944 when the 309th was re-designated as the 329th Bombardment Group.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Squadron emblems of the United States Air Force. This is a list of United States Air Force Bomb Squadrons. It covers all squadrons that were constituted or redesignated as bombardment squadron sometime during their active service. Today Bomb Squadrons are considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) along with fighter squadrons. Units in this list ...
Columbia Army Air Base, 6.5 miles (10.5 km) southwest of Columbia; 309th/329th Bombardment Group, 329th AAF Base Unit Also used by: Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command Later: Transferred to First Air Force 129th Army Air Force Base Unit Known sub-bases and auxiliaries Barnwell Army Airfield Johns Island Army Airfield North Army Airfield
The group was first activated in July 1942 as the 329th Fighter Group. It acted as an Operational Training Unit for fighter units and as a Replacement Training Unit for Lockheed P-38 Lightning pilots deploying to overseas theaters until 1944, when it was disbanded in a major reorganization of the Army Air Forces training units.
The 329th Combat Crew Training Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 93d Operations Group at Castle Air Force Base, California, where it was responsible for the training of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircrews until inactivating on 1 July 1994.
North American RB-25D-30 (F-10) Mitchell 43-3374 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.This aircraft was removed from storage at Tucson, Arizona, and rebuilt by North American Aviation at Inglewood, California, to the configuration the lead B-25B flown by Lt. Col. Doolittle on the Tokyo Raid, B-25B 40-2344.
93d Bombardment Group; RAF Hardwick, December 1942-May 1945 Deployed to Ninth Air Force, December 1942-August 1943 Participated in 1 August 1943 Attack on Ploesti Oilfields, Romania 328th Bombardment Squadron 329th Bombardment Squadron 330th Bombardment Squadron 409th Bombardment Squadron Inactivated December 1945. 389th Bombardment Group
The Army Air Forces also employed two composite groups with their own TO&Es: the 28th Bomb Group (15 B-24 and 30 B-25), and the 509th Composite Group (15 B-29 and 5 C-54). 19 heavy groups and one light bomb group were to be converted to very heavy groups for duty against Japan, but the war ended before the plan was carried out.