page_title: 448th Supply Chain Management Group
section_title: Lineage
hierarchical_section_title: 448th Supply Chain Management Group / Lineage
caption_attribution_description: English: A B-24M Liberator after being shot down by a Messerschmitt Me 262 in April, 1945. The entire crew perished except for Charles E. Culp Jr, who managed to get out of the bomb bay and deploy his parachute at 2,000 feet.
context_page_description: The 448th Supply Chain Management Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was to the 448th Fighter-Bomber Wing, stationed at Hensley Field, Texas. It was inactivated on 16 November 1957.
  During World War II, its predecessor unit, the 448th Bombardment Group was an Eighth Air Force B-24 Liberator unit in England. Assigned to RAF Seething in late 1943, the group flew its last combat mission on 25 April 1945, attacking a marshalling yard at Salzburg, Austria.
  It returned to the United States in July 1945, and was assigned to Second Air Force for B-29 Superfortress conversion and training. The end of the Pacific War canceled the deployment of the group to Okinawa, the unit remaining at McCook Army Airfield, Nebraska, its stage-3 training base when training was complete, then moved to Fort Worth AAF when McCook was closed.
  In the postwar era, the 448th Bombardment Group was one of the original ten USAAF bombardment groups assigned to Strategic Air Command on 21 March 1946.
context_section_description: Constituted as the 448th Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 6 April 1943
  Activated on 1 May 1943
  Redesignated 448th Bombardment Group, Heavy on 20 August 1943
  Redesignated 448th Bombardment Group, Very Heavy on 5 August 1945
  Inactivated on 4 August 1946
  Allotted to the reserve and activated on 19 April 1947
  Redesignated 448th Bombardment Group, Light on 27 June 1949
  Ordered to active duty on 17 March 1951
  Inactivated on 21 March 1951
  Redesignated 448th Fighter-Bomber Group and allotted to the reserve on 12 April 1955
  Activated on 18 May 1955
  Inactivated on 16 November 1957
  Redesignated 448th Tactical Fighter Group on 31 July 1985 (remained inactive)
  Redesignated 448th Eagle Propulsion Sustainment Group
  Activated on 18 February 2005
  Redesignated 448th Combat Sustainment Group on 14 April 2006
  Redesignated 448th Supply Chain Management Group on 1 April 2008
  Inactivated on 30 June 2010
caption: A B-24M, serial number 44-50838 "Red Bow", after being shot down by a Messerschmitt Me 262
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