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History: Established as Domestic Wing, Air Corps Ferrying Command, and activated, on 18 February 1942. Redesignated as: Domestic Wing, Army Air Forces Ferry Command, on 9 March 1942; Domestic Wing, Army Air Forces Ferrying Command, on 31 March 1942; Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, on 20 June 1942; Continental Division, Air Transport Command, on 1 March 1946. Discontinued on 31 October 1946. Consolidated (29 March 1979) with Continental Division, Military Air Transport Service, which was organized on 1 July 1948. Redesignated as: Western Transport Air Force on 1 July 1958; Twenty-Second Air Force on 8 January 1966. Inactivated on 1 July 1993. Activated in the Reserve on 1 July 1993. In Feb 1942, the Army Air Corps activated the Domestic Wing, later redesignated as the Ferrying Division, with the personnel of the Domestic Division, Army Air Corps Ferrying Command, established in December 1941. The Domestic Wing moved newly-produced aircraft, flown by AAF pilots, civilian pilots, and women pilots of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron and the Women's Air Service Pilots, from points within the United States to ports of embarkation for shipment to Britain and other overseas Allies. Later, AAF pilots flew aircraft to destinations outside the United States. In mid-1942, the wing began flying cargo on transports it ferried to overseas locations, and in May 1943, the AAF assigned transports to the Ferrying Division to fly cargo over its scheduled overseas ferrying routes. In May 1944, the Ferrying Division began flying wounded US military personnel from overseas theaters of operations to the United States. After June 1945 until October 1946, the Ferrying Division returned Italian and German prisoners of war from US locations to Europe and thousands of US military personnel from overseas locations to the United States as part of postwar demobilization.

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