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-17G 42-37879 'Wrinkled Belly Baby' 334BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF.
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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... -
334th Bomb Squadron
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42-37879 'Wrinkled Belly Baby'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 29/9/43; Gr Island 22/10/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [BG-U] Horham 11/11/43; with W.P. Kelley force landed Attlebridge afb, Suffolk, 11/12/43; two days later the u/c would not extend and force landed at Honington AFB with H. M. Powers, Co...
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 30 November 2015 15:26:34 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with caption, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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