Personnel whose training and skills were unique to the B-24 Liberator aircraft configuration requirements, were transferred out of the squadron and personnel trained in the operation and maintenance of VF aircraft, were assigned to the squadron as replacements. On 25 September 1944, Major V.C. Ullman, USMCR, and Major H.D. Treadway, USMCR and 19 officers were transferred out of the squadron and assigned to the newly formed Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, VMD-954 MCAS, Cherry Point was becoming a very active Air Station. Work and training continued day and night The barracks were filled to capacity and cots had to be set up in the aisles and in all available space to handle the crush of personnel in transit, moving in and out of the base. VMD-354 personnel were scattered throughout different barracks, the work areas were patches of space wherever space could be allocated. The ambient noise level at nighttime made sleep difficult. If it weren't the noise from aircraft taking off and landing, it was the sounds of aircraft engines being put through their paces in the maintenance areas. On 1 November 1944, both VMD-354 and VMD-954 were transferred to the Marine Corps Outlying Air Field at Greenville, NC. At the time of the transfer to Greenville, MCAS, Cherry Point had exceeded a population of 25,000. Cherry Point-Pictorials