93d Operations Group The 93d Operations Group ( 93 OG ) is an inactive United States Air Force unit . Its last assignment was with the 93d Air Control Wing , stationed at Moody Air Force Base , Georgia . The unit was inactivated on 1 October 2002 During World War II , the group ' s predecessor unit , the 93d Bombardment Group was the first VIII Bomber Command B - 24 Liberator heavy bombardment groups to carry out strategic bombardment operations against targets in Occupied Europe and Nazi Germany from RAF Alconbury , England . The group became operational with a mission over Occupied France on 9 October 1942 . In the postwar era , the 93d Bombardment Group was one of the original ten USAAF bombardment groups assigned to Strategic Air Command on 21 March 1946 . Equipped with low - hour B - 29 Superfortress surplus World War II aircraft , the group deployed to Far East Air Forces during the early part of the Korean War , and flew combat missions over Korea . The group was inactivated in 1952 when the parent wing adopted the Tri - Deputate organization and assigned all of the groups squadrons directly to the wing . Reactivated as the 93d Operations Group in 1991 when the 93d Wing adopted the USAF Objective organization plan . History . World War II . The 93d Bombardment Group was activated on 1 March 1942 . It initially prepared for combat with B - 24 ' s . Engaged in antisubmarine operations over the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea as part of the III Bomber Command , May – July 1942 . The group moved to England , August – September 1942 , and was assigned to Eighth Air Force . It was assigned to the 20th Combat Bombardment Wing . The group flew its B - 24 Liberator aircraft with a tail code of " Circle B " . The 93d was the first Liberator - equipped bomber group to reach the Eighth Air Force . The group became operational with the B - 24 on 9 October 1942 by attacking steel and engineering works at Lille France . Until December , the group operated primarily against submarine pen s along the French coast along the Bay of Biscay . While the 93d was at RAF Alconbury , His Majesty , King George VI paid his first visit to an Eighth Air Force base on 13 November 1942 . During the visit , he was shown the B - 24 " Teggie Ann " , then considered to be the 93d ' s leading aircraft . On 6 December 1942 most of the group was transferred to Twelfth Air Force in North Africa to support the Operation Torch landings . The group receiving a Distinguished Unit Citation for operations in that theatre , December 1942 – February 1943 , when , with inadequate supplies and under the most difficult desert conditions , the detachment struck heavy blows at enemy shipping and communications . The detachment returned to England in February 1943 , where its personnel were featured on the cover of the 26 July 1943 issue of " Life Magazine " and the unit dubbed " Ted ' s Traveling Circus " after its first commander , Col . Edward J . Timberlake . The balance of the 93d BG was moved to RAF Hardwick ( Station 104 ) , in Norfolk where B - 24 groups were being concentrated . From February 1943 and until the end of June the group bombed engine repair works , harbours , power plants , and other targets in France , the Low Countries , and Germany . A detachment returned to the Mediterranean theatre during June and July 1943 to support the Allied invasion of Sicily and to participate in the famous low - level attack on enemy oil installations at Ploesti on 1 August . Having followed another element of the formation along the wrong course to Ploesti , the 93d hit targets that had been assigned to other groups , but it carried out its bombing of the vital oil installations despite heavy losses inflicted by attacks from the fully alerted enemy and was awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation for the operation . After the detachment returned to England in August 1943 , the group flew only two missions before the detachment was sent back to the Mediterranean to support the Fifth Army at Salerno during the invasion of Italy in September 1943 . The detachment rejoined the group in October 1943 , and until April 1945 the 93d concentrated on bombardment of strategic targets such as marshalling yards , aircraft factories , oil refineries , chemical plants , and cities in Germany . In addition it bombed gun emplacements , choke points , and bridges near Cherbourg during the Normandy invasion in June 1944 . It attacked troop concentrations in northern France during the Saint - Lô breakthrough in July 1944 ; transported food , gasoline , water , and other supplies to the Allies advancing across France , August – September 1944 ; dropped supplies to airborne troops in Holland on 18 September 1944 ; struck enemy transportation and other targets during the Battle of the Bulge , December 1944 – January 1945 ; and flew two missions on 24 March 1945 during the airborne assault across the Rhine , dropping supplies to troops near Wesel and bombing a night - fighter base at Stormede . The 93d Bomb Group ceased combat operations in April 1945 , and returned to Sioux Falls AAF South Dakota during May / June for B - 29 Superfortress transition training , prior to deployment to the Pacific Theater . However , the deployment never took place as the war in the Pacific ended . The group was demobilized and was eventually inactivated in December 1945 . Strategic Air Command . The 93d Bombardment Group ( Very Heavy ) was activated at Merced Field , California on 21 June 1946 which was assigned to Merced for Boeing B - 29 Superfortress training . The 93d was one of SAC ' s first ten bomb groups . There were three initial operational squadrons ( 328th , 329th , and 330th ) which absorbed the equipment and aircraft of the inactivated 444th BG . On 1 October 1946 the airfield was put on " minimal operations on caretaker status " , with control of the facility under Colorado Springs AAF . The 93d Bomb Group , however remained active . It , along with the 509th Composite Group at Roswell Army Air Field , New Mexico , was all there was of Strategic Air Command at that time . The airfield remained in this status until 1 May 1947 when it was reactivated . On 1 May 1947 , Castle Army Airfield was reactivated under Strategic Air Command . On 28 July 1947 , the 93d Bombardment Wing , ( Very Heavy ) was established and took host unit responsibility from the group as part of the Hodgson " Base - Wing " plan . During 1947 – 1948 , it flew Boeing B - 29 Superfortresses , but soon received the upgraded version of the B - 29 , the Boeing B - 50A . In 1948 , the entire group deployed to Kadena AB , Okinawa , becoming the first Strategic Air Command bomb group to deploy in full strength to the Far East . During the early days of the Korean War , the 93d BG received B - 29s from flyable storage and deployed from the United States to Yokota AB , Japan . Under control of the FEAF Bomber Command ( Provisional ) until January 1951 , the 93d bombed factories , refineries , iron works , hydroelectric plants , airfields , bridges , tunnels , troop concentrations , barracks , marshalling yards , road junctions , rail lines , supply dumps , docks , vehicles and other strategic and interdiction targets . Upon its return to Castle AFB in 1951 , the group was re - equipped with B - 50s . In June 1952 the group was inactivated when the Air Force reorganized its wings into the tri - deputate system . Modern era . On 1 September 1991 , the 93d Bombardment Wing was redesignated as the 93d Wing under the " Objective Wing " concept adapted by the Air Force as the lines between tactical and strategic forces blurred The flying components of the wing were reassigned to the newly established 93d Operations Group . Upon activation , the 93 OG was bestowed the history , lineage and honors of the 93d Bombardment Group from the 93 Wing . As part of their new mission , the 93d OG also gained the B - 52 Stratofortress squadrons from the 93d Wing . However , the operations of the reestablished group was short , On 1 June 1992 the 93d was relieved from assignment to SAC and was reassigned to the newly formed Air Combat Command ( ACC ) . Its B - 52G aircraft given the ACC tail code of " CA " and carried blue tail stripes . The 328d Bomb Squadron was inactivated 3 May 1994 , and the wing and group was placed on non - operational status . The group was inactivated on 31 October 1994 . Just four months later , however , it was reactivated as the operational arm of the 93d Air Control Wing and was reactivated at Robins AFB , Georgia on 29 January 1996 . It was equipped with the E - 8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System ( Joint STARS ) and it accepted its first production aircraft on 11 June 1996 . Some crews and aircraft deployed from Robins AFB to Bosnia in 1996 to support the Joint Endeavor peacekeeping operation . Deployed to Southwest Asia in response to Iraq ' s refusal to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors , 18 February – 3 June 1998 . Between 23 February – 28 June 1999 , deployed aircraft and personnel to Ramstein AB , Germany to assist in monitoring Serbian withdrawal from Kosovo . Upon inactivation on 1 October 2002 ; Georgia Air National Guard ' s 116 Air Control Wing assumed command responsibility for JSTARS mission . The 93 Bomb Group Museum , Station 104 , Hardwick . A small museum in Norfolk , UK dedicated to USAAF World War II activities .