96th  Air Service Group

Constituted as 96th Maintenance Group on 13 March 1942.  Redesigned as the 96th Service Group and activated on 25 July 1942.  Trained in providing field service to the 332d Fighter Group at Selfridge Field, Michigan and Oscoda Field, Michigan from May 1943 to December 1943.  Moved to Italy in early February 1944.  Assigned to 12th Air Force Service Command.  Provided field service to 332d Fighter Group Squadrons located at Montecorvino and Campodichino Air Fields.  Transferred to 15th Air Force Service Command in mid April 1944.  The 366th Air Service Squadron, 1000th Signal Company and 1765th Ordnance Service and Maintenance Company were transferred from the 96th Service Group to the 38th Service Group and located at Ramitelli Air Field to provide field service to the 332d Fighter Group.  The remainder of the 96th detachment from Service Group ( including a detachment from the 1000th Signal Company) were transferred to Jesi, Italy to provide emergency service on Allied aircraft returning from raids on targets in Germany and other Axis Nations.  Inactivated on 15 April 1945 and redesigned as 523rd and 524th Air Service Groups

366th Air Squadron, 367th Air Service Squadron, 100th Signal Company, 1051st Quartermaster Trucking Company, 1901st Quartermaster Trucking Company, 1902d Quartermaster Trucking Company, 1765th Ordnance Service and Maintenance Company, 1766th Ordnance Service and Maintenance Company, 43rd Medical Supply Platoon.

Tuskegee, Alabama, 13 March 1942; Selfridge Field, Michigan, 29 March 1943;  Oscoda Field, Michigan, 12 April 1943 - 22 December 1943;  Montecorvino Italy, 7 February 1944;  Foggia Main, Italy, 15 June 1944 - 15 August 1944;  Jesi Italy, 15 August 1944 - 15 April 1944.

In order from 25 July 1942 to 15 April 1945 Major Baste L. Loggins, Major Percy L. Jones, Major Thomas N. Orr, Major E.V. Hughs, Colonel Peter Skanse, Major John Jones.  Lieutenant Colonel William Hill, Lieutenant Colonel Leonard B. Wade, Lieutenant Colonel John H Phipps.

American Theater, EAME Theater, Rome-Amo, North Apennines, Po Valley

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