8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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43-38933
B-17 Flying Fortress
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B-17G-100-BO #43-38933 "Dear Mom II" Code: G (Background) B-17G-105-BO #43-39221 Code: N (foreground) 388th BG
Delivered Lincoln 14/10/44; Dow Fd 26/10/44; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 29/10/44; while on navigation exercise 17/5/45 with H.J. Cole, cp V. Ferguson, two navigators and two grounded crew, on as makeshift ttg and r/op (6 Killed in Action); crash landed Lands End, UK 31/5/45; Sal; Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 27/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 20/11/45. WEARY WOLF aka DEAR MOM II.
Service
Units
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388th Bomb Group
Group
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran... -
561st Bomb Squadron
Squadron
People
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Audis Barringer
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
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Julius Conison
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier, Flight Engineer; Top Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Landsberg on 9 Apr 45 in B-17 #448504 -
Harvey Frye
Military | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
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William Griffith
Military | Captain | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
35 missions AM w/ 6 Oak Leaf Cluster -
James Jamison
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
completed 35 missions 'Ready Maid' -
Robert Joralemon
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 388th Bomb Group
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Kenneth LaPean
Military | Chief Master Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Attached is a copy of radio operator's (Fred 'Moon' Price) diary. [Documents accompany database form. ] AM w/ 6 Oak Leaf Cluster/ EAME/ National Defense/ WWII VM 1 Me262 (gun camera verifictation) [not provided] -
Ernest Manning
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
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John Martin
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Nuremburg on 25 Feb 45 in B-17 #4338558 -
Charles McGehee
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Missions
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745
10 December 1944
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746
11 December 1944
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748
12 December 1944
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750
15 December 1944
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8th Air Force 760
24 December 1944
1. Decision. ... -
766
28 December 1944
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770
30 December 1944
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772
31 December 1944
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791
13 January 1945
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794
15 January 1945
Places
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Knettishall
Military site : airfield
Knettishall was built to Class A standard for an American Bomb Group that would be bringing up to forty heavy bombers with them in three or four Squadrons. The 388th Bomb Group, which stayed at Knettishall for their entire service in the ETO, flew B-17...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Delivered | Lincoln, NE | 14 October 1944 |
| Assigned | Knettishall Airfield, UK | 29 October 1944 |
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388BG |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 28 September 2020 01:37:23 | 466thHistorian | Changes to production block number, manufacturer, nicknames, markings, events, unit associations, person associations and mission associations |
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http://www.388bg.com/servlet/Controller?pageType=detail&id=43-38933&data... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:41:34 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log |
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