as the wartime army air forces demobilized in 1945 and 1946, inactivated unit designations were allotted and transferred to various state and territorial air national guard bureaus to provide them unit designations to re-establish them as air national guard units. initially, the national guard bureau (ngb) developed a table of organization for the air national guard to include at least one unit allocation per state. in addition, the territories of alaska, hawaii and puerto rico were allocated one unit designation each. a table of organization was developed in which a series of twelve ang wings were allocated to provide command and control over separate regions of the united states; each wing controlled three or four groups within the region, and the groups controlled squadrons within the region, sometimes distributed over several states.