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 Dallas 28/7/44; Cheyenne 3/8/44; Grenier 8/9/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-K] Horham 10/9/44; 335BS [OG-K]; 73m, Returned to the USA Bradley 21/6/45; Sth Plains 24/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 2/12/45.
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95th Bomb Group
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...
People
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John Barnes
Military | Lieutenant | Navigator | 95th Bomb Group
John Barnes was born January 31, 1922 in Philadelphia, PA, the son of Leonard and Gertrude Barnes of Emporium, PA . He received his undergraduate and Ph.D from Penn State University. He served in WWII as the navigator of the “Spirit of Martinez with... -
Frank Calicura
Military | First Lieutenant | B-17 Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Frank Calicura served as a pilot with the 95th Bomb Group. ...
Revisions
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| 13 September 2018 05:09:02 | spiritofmartinez45 | Changes to nicknames |
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| 13 September 2018 05:06:04 | spiritofmartinez45 | Changes to nicknames |
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| 13 September 2018 05:05:11 | spiritofmartinez45 | Changes to unit associations |
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| 27 September 2014 18:41:56 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log |
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