467th Bombardment Group The 467th Bombardment Group is an inactive United States Army Air Forces unit . Its last assignment was to the Strategic Air Command , being stationed at Clovis Army Airfield , New Mexico . It was inactivated on 4 August 1946 . During World War II , the group was an Eighth Air Force B - 24 Liberator unit in England assigned to RAF Rackheath . The group set unsurpassed record for bombing accuracy on 15 April 1945 , holding the record for bombing accuracy in the Eighth Air Force . They destroyed a German battery at Pointe de Grave , on the west coast of France and scored a 100 per cent strike . The group commander , Colonel Albert J . Shower , was the only group commander to stay with the same group from beginning to the end of the war . Returned to the United States in July 1945 , converted to B - 29 Superfortress es and trained for deployment to the Pacific Theater . Deployment to Okinawa cancelled with the end of the Pacific War in August 1945 . After training completed , assigned to Clovis AAF , New Mexico and was one of the original ten USAAF bombardment groups assigned to Strategic Air Command on 21 March 1946 . The group was inactivated on 4 August 1946 due to the Air Force ' s policy of retaining only low - numbered groups on active duty after the war , and its B - 29 aircraft , personnel and equipment were reassigned to the senior 301st Bombardment Group at Smoky Hill Army Airfield , Kansas . History . Established as a B - 24 Liberator heavy bombardment group in mid - 1943 at Mountain Home Army Air Field , Idaho , and activated on 8 September . Transferred to Kearns Center , Utah for personnel assignment and organization then sent to Wendover Field , Utah for combat training on 1 November . In January the group received deployment orders for the European Theater of Operations ( ETO ) . On 12 February 1944 the ground unit went by train to Camp Shanks , New York . They sailed on the USAT Frederick Lykes on 28 February 1944 and arrived in Clyde on 10 March 1944 . The aircraft left Wendover on 12 February 1944 and took the southern Atlantic ferry route . One B - 24 was lost with all the crew over the Atlas mountains . Moved to RAF Rackheath , Norfolk in England , February – March 1944 , and was assigned to the VIII Bomber Command . The group was assigned to the 96th Combat Bombardment Wing , and the group tail code was a " Circle - P " . The mission of the 467th was to engage in very long range strategic bombardment operations over Occupied Europe and Nazi Germany . The group began operations on 10 April 1944 with an attack by thirty aircraft on an airfield at Bourges in central France . In combat , the unit served chiefly as a strategic bombardment organization , attacking the harbor at Kiel , chemical plants at Bonn , textile factories at Stuttgart , power plants at Hamm , steel works at Osnabrück , the aircraft industry at Brunswick , and other objectives . In addition to strategic operations , engaged occasionally in support and interdictory missions . Bombed shore installations and bridges near Cherbourg on D - Day , 6 June 1944 . Struck enemy troop and supply concentrations near Montreuil on 25 July 1944 to assist the Allied drive across France . In September , over two weeks the bombers flew gasoline from Rackheath to Clastres Airfield ( A - 71 ) France for use by the US mechanized forces . Attacked German communications and fortifications during the Battle of the Bulge , December 1944 – January 1945 . Hit enemy transportation to assist the Allied assault across the Rhine in March 1945 . After the German Capitulation in May 1945 , the group was ordered back to the United States for B - 29 transition and redeployment to the Pacific Theater of Operations ( PTO ) . Redeployed to the US June / July 1945 . The air echelon departed Rackheath on 12 June 1945 . The ground units sailed from Greenock on the Queen Mary on 6 July 1945 . They arrived in New York on 11 July 1945 . Upon arrival , most of the group was demobilized due to their combat service in Europe ; a cadre of officers and men was formed at Sioux Falls Army Air Field , South Dakota on 25 August . At Sioux Falls , the unit was redesignated as the 467th Bombardment Group ( Very Heavy ) in August and was reformed with newly - trained pilots , aircrews and ground personnel . The reformed group was sent to Harvard Army Airfield , Nebraska for initial Second Air Force training then on to Phase II training at Alamogordo Army Airfield , New Mexico where the group trained on worn II Bomber Command B - 17s and some pre - production YB - 29s used for aircrew training . The Japanese Capitulation in early August canceled the planned deployment to the Pacific , however the group continued to train Due to the advanced training state of the unit , it was reassigned to Harvard Army Airfield , Nebraska , where the group received new B - 29 Superfortress es and completed training . In December 1945 was assigned to a permanent base at Clovis AAF , New Mexico as part of Continental Air Forces . Engaged in strategic bombardment training operations on a reduced scale upon arrival at Clovis , as many personnel were being demobilzed . On 21 March 1946 , was assigned as one of the initial units of the new Strategic Air Command . The unit , however was inactivated on 4 August due to personnel shortages and funding reductions in the immediate postwar Air Force . The equipment and remaining personnel were reassigned to other SAC units , primarily the 301st Bombardment Group at Smoky Hill Army Airfield , Kansas .