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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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 5/2/44; Kearney 24/2/44; Presque Is 11/3/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-O] Horham 11/3/44; with G.M. Jackman force landed B-53 Merville, Belg., 10/5/45; with Lt Henderson force landed A-70 Laon, France 20/5/45; 114m Returned to the USA Bradley 25/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/12/45.
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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Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...
Squadron
Squadron
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Tail Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Radio Operator | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Waist Gunner/Flight Engineer | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 95th Bomb Group
23 March 1944
The industrial areas of Brunswick, Munster, Osnabruck, and Achmer, Germany as well as the airfield at Handorf, Germany become the targets for a force of 768 heavy bombers despatched by all three Air Divisions. The bomber gunner claims on German...
28 March 1944
A force of 450 heavy bombers from all three Air Divisions is despatched to bomb the German E-Boat pens at Ijmuiden, Holland and German airfields in France. Mission Summary follows:
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1 April 1944
The industrial areas of Ludwigshafen was the traget for this mission, but the mission was frustrated by heavy cloud cover and navigational errors that resulted in the mission going haywire. 3rd Air Division and 2nd Air Division despatch heavy bombers....
8 April 1944
10 April 1944
11 April 1944
18 April 1944
The handwritten log of my father, Horace O. "Hank" Turner, states this.. "Started to raid Berlin, bad weather and we bombed Brandenberg. formation bad and flak terrific." He had marked it with an "x", which he noted meant that "Our plane was hit by...
19 May 1944
25 May 1944
First mission. Up at 5:00 AM and back at 11:00. Good hit on marshaling yards. Our plane was hit but no-one in our crew was hit.
28 May 1944
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....
Military site : airfield
Event | Location | Date |
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Delivered | Cheyenne, WY | 4 February 1944 |
Crashed | Merville, France | 10 May 1945 |
Force landed B-53 Merville, Belgium, 10/5/45. Pilot Lt G M Jackman. |
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Crashed | Laon, France | 20 May 1945 |
Force landed A-70 Laon, France 20/5/45. Pilot Lt Henderson. |
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Returned Stateside | Bradley Field, Salisbury, NC 28147, USA | 25 June 1945 |
Returned to the USA Bradley 25/6/45. 114 mission veteran. Sold for scrap. |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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22 September 2020 00:46:47 | 466thHistorian | Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, events, place associations and mission associations |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
14 December 2015 13:28:56 | Al_Skiff | Changes to nicknames and unit associations |
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AAM DB Entry Correction. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
14 December 2015 10:27:46 | Lucy May | Changes to nicknames |
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Changed serial number from '41 -97194' to '42-97194'. This is as it is in Dave Osborne's Fortlog as well as the 95th Bomb Group's listing. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
13 December 2015 13:27:22 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, manufacturer, markings, events, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:40:01 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log |