The469th Bombardment Group is a formerUnited States Army Air Forces (AAF) unit. It was activated in May 1943 and served as aReplacement Training Unit until it was disbanded in April 1944 when the AAF reorganized its training and support units in the United States.
However, theArmy Air Forces (AAF) was finding that standard military units like the 469th, which were assigned personnel and equipment based on relatively inflexibletables of organization were not proving well adapted to the training mission. In November 1943, most elements of the group were administratively organized as a "Combat Crew Training School".[6] However this adjustment did not go far enough and in the spring of 1944, the AAF adopted a more functional system in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit, which was manned and equipped based on the station's requirements.[7] Accordingly, the 469th Group was disbanded, and along with its elements and supporting units at Alexandria was used to form the 221st AAF Base Unit.[3][8]
The group was reconstituted in July 1985 as the469th Electronic Warfare Group, but has not been active since.[9]
^See Mueller, p. 168 (showing simultaneous disbanding and organization of units).
^abDepartment of the Air Force/MPM Letter 648q, 31 July 1985, Subject: Reconstitution, Redesignation, and Consolidation of Selected Air Force Organizations
^Lineage through 1963 in Maurer,Combat Units, p. 344
Goss, William A. "The Organization and its Responsibilities, Chapter 2 The AAF". In Craven, Wesley F.; Cate, James L. (eds.).The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol. VI, Men & Planes.
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