{"id":36,"date":"2022-01-22T10:34:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T10:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/330thasg.org\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2022-02-12T18:33:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T18:33:54","slug":"unit-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/330thasg.org\/index.php\/unit-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"36\" class=\"elementor elementor-36\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-35bb566 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"35bb566\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ee414a3\" data-id=\"ee414a3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a38f289 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a38f289\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.5.6 - 28-02-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The fundamental role of an Air Service Group during WWII was to provide high-level maintenance and repair of US Army Air Forces aircraft. \u00a0One ASG was typically assigned to a Group of operational aircraft. The ASGs were intended to operate at dispersed airfields performing repairs or maintenance more complex than that performed by the ground crews assigned to each Group.\u00a0 The ASGs were also capable of recovering damaged aircraft in the field and they frequently supported air base operations.<\/p><p>From its inception in February 1942 until December 1943, the 330th ASG served as a \u201cParent Training Group,\u201d training other ASGs before they deployed overseas. During this time, they were stationed in Pendleton, OR.<\/p><p>In December 1943 the unit changed from a training to an operational role. They moved to the Midwest (Oklahoma City, OK and Salina, KS) where they spent six months working on B-29 aircraft (including participating in the \u201cBattle of Kansas\u201d) and preparing for overseas deployment.<\/p><p>The officers and men of the 330th ASG left the US in July 1944 and arrived at Saipan in mid-August. There, assigned to the 73rd Bomb Wing, they helped build Isely Field \u2013 the first B-29 airbase in the Marianas Islands \u2013 and then supported the strategic bombing of Japan by keeping the B-29s based at Isely Field operational until the end of the war in the Pacific.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundamental role of an Air Service Group during WWII was to provide high-level maintenance and repair of US Army Air Forces aircraft. \u00a0One ASG was typically assigned to a Group of operational aircraft. 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