00444209
2-8571-6
UNCLASSIFIED
2438396
01-01-1964
2438548
06-01-1964
GROUP/0348/COMBAT SUPPORT
HISTORY
K-GP-SUP-348-HI
13077
M0071
20
309
43
2447580
02-22-1989
THE 8 TACTICAL FIGHTER WING AND THE 6143 AIR BASE GROUP WERE INACTIVATED AND THE 348 COMBAT SUPPORT GROUP WAS ACTIVATED. ITAZUKE AIR BASE, JAPAN, WAS CONVERTED FROM A FULLY OPERATIONAL BASE TO A FORWARD OPERATING BASE (FOB). THE 6348 SUPPORT SQUADRON AT HAKATA ADMINISTRATION ANNEX AND THE 6348 MUNITIONS MAINTENANCE SQUADRON AT YAMADA WERE ADDED TO THE 348 COMBAT SUPPORT GROUP (CSG). THE MISSION OF THE 348 CSG WAS TO OPERATE AND MAINTAIN ITAZUKE AIR BASE, THE ADMINISTRATION ANNEX, THE HAKATA ADMINISTRATION ANNEX AND OTHER ASSIGNED FACILITIES. THE GROUP WAS INVOLVED IN PROJECT CLEARWATER, THE MOVE OF THE F-105 AIRCRAFT TO YOKOTA, JAPAN. ON 1 JUN 64, COL WILLIAM H. BLACK REPLACED COL RICHARD W. MILLER AS COMMANDER OF 348 CSG.
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