483d Bombardment Group
| 483d Airlift Group | |
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| Active | 1943–1945, 1953-1958, 1991-1992 |
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 United States
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| Branch |
 United States Air Force
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| Role | Airlift |
| Part of | Pacific Air Forces |
| Motto(s) | Efficient Airlift Support |
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| Emblem of the 483d Bombardment Group |  |
The 483d Airlift Group is an inactive unit last assigned to Pacific Air Forces at Osan AB Korea. It was assigned to Twenty-Second Air Force as a VIP transport unit for Headquarters, Seventh Air Force. It was inactivated on 1 June 1992.
During World War II, the 483d Bombardment Group was the last B-17 Flying Fortress unit trained in the United States. It was deployed to Fifteenth Air Force in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations in 1944. It was later re-activated during the Korean War as a troop carrier group.
The group was constituted as 483d Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 14 September 1943 and activated on 20 September. Its original squadrons were the newly activated 815th,816th,817th Bombardment Squadrons, and the 818th Bombardment Squadron, which moved from Gulfport Army Air Field, where it had been performing anti-submarine warfare as the 21st Antisubmarine Squadron' to join the group at Ephrata Army Air Base. The group trained with Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses under Third Air Force in Florida. While in training at MacDill Field, the 818th Bombardment Squadron and the 840th Bombardment Squadron, assigned to the 488th Bombardment Group, swapped designations.
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