96th Bomb Group
Group
The 96th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses to targets across occupied Europe from May 1943 to April 1945.
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Connections
Units
People
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Norville Gorse
Military | Captain | Co-Pilot
B-17 #42-29752 ditched into North Sea 13 May 1943. Gorse and pilot Rogers made a valiant effort to control the plane. Returned to base. ... -
Joseph Hudson
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator
B-17 #4229752 ditched in Channel 13 May 1943. Returned to base. May also have a mention in Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I p. 161 by Bishop & Hey for 24 June 1943, B17 41-9174 was on a navigational test flight when problems developed on... -
William Nance
Military | Captain | Pilot
Shot down 28 July 1943 in B-17 #4230355 'Dallas Rebel. ' Plane crashed into North Sea. Prisoner of War (POW). POW
Aircraft
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42-30355 Dallas Rebel
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 23/5/43; Gr Isle 4/6/43; Dow Fd 1/7/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW- ] Snetterton 4/7/43; Missing in Action Warnemunde 28/7/43 with Bill Nance, Co-pilot: Norville Gorse, Navigator: Joe Hudson, Bombardier: R.H. McGuiness, Flight engineer...
Missions
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VIII Bomber Command 78
28 July 1943
The German aircraft industry at Kassel (Fieseler works) and Oscherleben, Germany are the primary targets of this mission. 182 B-17s from: 91BG (20); 92BG (17); 303BG (20); 305BG (21); 306BG (24); 351BG (21); 379BG (19); 381BG (20); and 384BG (20) are... -
VIII Fighter Command FO-83 BOMBER ESCORT
28 July 1943
A combined force of 123 P-47s from: 4FG; 56FG; and 78FG are despathed to escort the VIII Bomber Command mission #78 against Kassel and Oschersleben, Germany. The escort encounters approximately 45 German fighters attacking the bomber stream. These P...
Locations
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Snetterton Heath
Military site : airfield
Intended to be an RAF bomber base, construction of Snetterton Heath started in Autumn 1942 but continued until mid-1943, because it was extended after allocation as an Eighth Air Force bomber base. It had eventually three concrete runways, 50... -
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Other location
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 04 December 2015 00:47:08 | jgorse | Changes to place associations |
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MACR 141from AFHRA/RSA Maxwell AFB, AL 27 Apr 2007 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 04 December 2015 00:47:07 | jgorse | Created entry with collection, caption, unit associations, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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MACR 141from AFHRA/RSA Maxwell AFB, AL 27 Apr 2007 |
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