76th Air Service Group | 315th Bombardment Wing | 20th AAF

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76th Air Service Group | 315th Bombardment Wing | 20th AAF

 

The mission of the 76th ASG was the provision of third echelon maintenance and supply services and complete station complement services for one combat group.

 

Elements:

• 76th Headquarters and Base Services Squadron
   
• 588th Engineering Squadron | to provide third echelon maintenance, salvage and reclamation of all items of equipment, for one combat group in a theater of operation.
   
• 582nd Materiel Squadron | to provide complete third echelon supply on a thirty-day level.

Lineage: Constituted 1 Mar 41 as the 76th Air Base Gp (Spl) and activated, redesignated 76th Service Gp (AG 320.2, 10 Jun 42); activated 11 May 44; redesignated 76th Air Service Gp Jan 45, inactivated 10 Jun 46, disbanded 8 Oct 48.

 

Assignments: Southeast AC Fly Tng Ctr through Jun 41, unknown until Jan 44 (may not have been active during part of this period), Warner Robins Air Svc Cmd to Oct 44, XX Bomber Cmd to Jan 45, 315 Bombardment Wing (502 Bombardment Gp) to 1946.

Stations: Maxwell Fld, Al to 25 Jun 41; Turner Fld to unknown; Columbia AAB, SC until 1943; Robins Fld, GA -unknown; Herbert Smart Apt, GA 11 May-3 Jun 44; Robins Fld, GA 3 Jun-18 Aug 44; Great Bend AAF, NE 18 Aug 44-Mar 45; Ft Lawton, WA to 16 Mar 45; Northwest Fld, Guam 12 Apr 45-c. Sep 45.

 

On March 16, 1945 two Air Service Groups, 76th ASG and 73rd ASG, departed Seattle for San Francisco aboard the USS Dorothea L. Dix. After spending eight hours anchored in the harbor taking aboard additional supplies, the USS Dix departed for our next port, Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands, and on Sunday morning, March 25th, the ship anchored in the harbor. March 29th the ship weighed anchor and proceeded in convoy to our next port of call and, as the month ended, the group was headed to Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. The International Date Line was crossed on 1 April. The group debarked on 12 April 1945, and moved by truck to Northwest Field, Guam.

 

By the end of April, the unit developed a dense jungle area to a livable camp with electricity, radio, barracks and excellent messing conditions.

A reorganization of the four service groups serving the theater placed the 24th, 73rd and 75th on detached service to the 76th ASG, effective 1 August 1945.

 

Embossed and painted on leather

 

 

 

Sources and Additional Reading:

76th ASG

315th Bomb Wing

CBI History

 

Three serviceman on blades of a propeller