 Through January 1945, it bombed airfields and installations on New Guinea, Celebes, and Halmahera, and flew reconnaissance missions.The group also detached Mitchells to act as navigation ships for Douglas A-20 Havocs of the 312th Bombardment Group attacking targets in southwestern New Guinea.The A-20s were not equipped with bombsights and could only make medium altitude attacks by "dropping on leader" (glying in formation and releasing their bombload at the same time as the lead aircraft, equipped with a bombsight).