page_title: 481st Night Fighter Operational Training Group
hierarchical_section_title: 481st Night Fighter Operational Training Group
caption_attribution_description: English: Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow 42-39728. Aircraft retired and sent to reclamation at Brookley Field, Alabama, Jul 14, 1949
context_page_description: The 481st Night Fighter Operational Training Group was a unit of the United States Army Air Forces. It was inactivated on 31 March 1944 at Hammer Field, California.
  The group was the primary night fighter Operational Training Unit /Replacement Training Unit of the Army Air Forces during World War II. Its mission was to train either new graduates of Training Command advanced flying schools or transition experienced pilots into the P-61 Black Widow night fighter. It trained them in the flight characteristics of the aircraft and also night fighter interceptor techniques prior to the operational squadrons or replacement pilots being deployed to one of the overseas combat theaters.
context_section_description: The 481st Night Fighter Operational Training Group (481 NFOTG) was a unit of the United States Army Air Forces.  It was inactivated on 31 March 1944 at Hammer Field, California.
  The group was the primary night fighter Operational Training Unit (OTU)/Replacement Training Unit (RTU) of the Army Air Forces during World War II.  Its mission was to train either new graduates of Training Command advanced flying schools or transition experienced pilots into the P-61 Black Widow night fighter.  It trained them in the flight characteristics of the aircraft and also night fighter interceptor techniques prior to the operational squadrons or replacement pilots being deployed to one of the overseas combat theaters.
caption: 420th Night Fighter Squadron P-61 42-39728 in its "stealth" camouflaged shiny black paint, out of place in the daylight skies over California
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