Activated 15 June 1942 at MacDill Field, Florida. Initial organization and training at Pendleton Field, Oregon on 29 June 1942. Primary flight training at Davis-Monthan Field in Arizona from 28 Aug. 42 to 31 Oct. 42; then at Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas from 1 Nov. 42 until 2 Jan. 1943. Final advanced training at Pueblo, Colorado, 3 Jan. 3 to 30 March 43.

The air echelon began movement to Bassingbourn, UK on 1 April 1943 and the ground echelon left for Camp Kilmer, New Jersey on 17 April 43, then sailed on the Queen Elizabeth 5 May 1943. They arrived at Greenock on 11 May 1943.

Encompasses 331st, 332nd, 333rd and 410th Bomb Squadrons.

The 94th Bomb Group flew 324 missions in 8,884 sorties from 13 May 1943 to 21 April 1945 and dropped 18,924 tons of bomb while losing 153 aircraft MIA.

After VE Day the Group took part in 'Nickel' Project missions, dropping leaflets over former occupied territories and to displaced people in Germany. In November 1945 Forty Five aircraft returned to the US or transferred to other units, and the squadrons were inactivated. Remaining personnel left Bury St. Edmunds on the 11 December 1945.

The group inactivated Camp Kilmer on the 21 December 1945. Allotted to the US Air Force Reserve and established first as a light bomber group in 1949, and later as a carrier organisation flying C-119.