36th Bombardment Squadron The 36th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit . Its last assignment was with the United States Air Forces in Europe , based at Camp Kilmer , New Jersey . It was inactivated on 15 December 1945 . History . 1940 - 1941 Reconnaissance and photo - mapping of Bering Sea and Alaska using B - 18 Bolo s . December 1941 - August 1943 Combat in the Northern Pacific . Assigned to Alaska where served to defend the territory after Japan attacked the United States at the end of 1941 . The unit helped force the withdrawal of Japanese ships that attacked Dutch Harbor in June 1942 , flew missions against occupied Kiska until the Japanese evacuated that island in August 1943 , December 1943 — August 1944 Carpetbagger Operations . In November 1943 , a unit was formed to clandestinely deliver agents and supplies into Nazi - occupied Europe for the Office of Strategic Services ( O . S . S . ) . To address this mission , the 36th Bombardment Squadron with specially modified B - 24 Liberator s were formed and activated at RAF Alconbury , England . It was attached to the 482nd Bombardment Group . This was the beginning of the Carpetbagger project . The purpose of the Carpetbagger project was to fly Special Operations missions which entailed delivering supplies to resistance groups in enemy occupied countries . Owing to lack of sufficient facilities at Alconbury , in mid - December the squadron was reassigned to the Eighth Air Force Composite Command ( Special Operations Group ) , ( remaining attached to the 482d Bomb Group ) and moved to RAF Watton ( Station 376 ) , near Thetford in Norfolk . The move to RAF Watton did not prove to be fortuitous . The heavy B - 24s were incompatible with the grass runways and muddy hard standings there and were forced to move back to Alconbury in January 1944 . A new airfield under construction in the depths of rural Northamptonshire , RAF Harrington ( Station 179 ) proved ideal for Carpetbagger operations . The advanced echelon of the squadrons moved into Harrington on 25 March 1944 . On 1 April the squadron was assigned to the 801st Bombardment Group ( Provisional ) . In August 1944 , the 801st Bombardment Group was absorbed by the 492d Bombardment Group ( Heavy ) . The 492d was a " hard luck " B - 24 group which had lost 52 aircraft to enemy action in only 89 days , suffering 588 men killed or missing . Rather than try to rebuild the shattered group , the group was stood down and the surviving members were reassigned to other units in theater . The operational squadrons of the 801st were stood down and redesignated as the squadrons assigned to the 492d . The 36th Bomb Squadron ' s personnel and equipment were redesignated as the 856th Bombardment Squadron , and the 36th was reassigned to the VIII Fighter Command as an unattached unit without equipment or personnel . August 1944 — April 1945 Electronic — countermeasure operations . The redesignation of the Carpetbagger squadrons made the designation of " 36th Bomb Squadron " available again and it was assigned to the 803d Bomb Squadron , a provisional squadron then located at RAF Cheddington . The 36th Bomb Squadron was the Eighth Air Force ' s only electronic warfare squadron using specially equipped B - 24s to jam Nazi VHF communications during large Eighth Air Force daylight raids . In addition , the 36th BS flew night missions with the Royal Air Force Bomber Command 100 Group at RAF Sculthorpe . The radar countermeasure effort came under RAF Bomber Command where they performed a variety of special operations activities . The missions included Window ( Chaff ) , Jostle , Carpet , Mandrel , and other ramifications . Many of the jamming systems were developed and tested by Allied scientists associated with the Telecommunications Research Establishment , namely the American - British Laboratory Division 15 ( ABL - 15 ) located at Great Malvern , near London . RCM operations were designed to deny the Germans effective utilization of radar and radio equipment . The 36th BS ' s missions involved trickery , ingenious deception , spoofs , and tank communications jamming . This squadron flew on bad weather days during the Battle of the Bulge as well , when the rest of the Eighth Air Force stood down . Along with these electronic warfare missions , the 36th BS also flew regular sorties which set out to discover the frequencies being used by the Nazis for their radio and radar devices . For this they operated a number of P - 38 Lightning twin boomed fighters from Alconbury as well as their B - 24s . All operations ceased by 30 April 1945 .