Operation Downfall
Reassigned to Great Bend Army Airfield, Kansas 25 July 1945. In preparation for Operation Downfall - overall Allied plan for the invasion of Japan the group was redesignated the 44th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy) in August 1945 in preparation for receiving Boeing B-29 Superfortresses. Assigned to Strategic Air Command on 21 March 1946. Reassigned to Smoky Hill Army Airfield, Kansas, 14 December 1945. Inactivated 12 July 1946.