IWM catalogue record
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A B-17 Flying Fortress (OR-Q, serial number 43-38083) of the 91st Bomb Group at Bassingbourn January 1945. Image by William D "Bill" Pulliam, 91st Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: 'OR:Q, Bassingbourn, 1945.'
Connections
Units
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Group
The 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated at Harding Field, Louisiana on 15-April-1942 and went to MacDill Field, Florida for the first phase of training from 16-May-1942 to 25-June-1942. The Group was then assigned to 2nd Air Force at Walla...
People
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Military | Sergeant | Photographic Unit
Aircraft
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 24/6/44; Hunter 14/7/44; Dow Fd 23/7/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-V] Bassingbourn 11/8/44; 48m battle damaged Aschaffenburg 22/1/45 with Nelson Van Blarcom, ; flak KO’d two engines and cut out electrics, equipment was dumped to enable...
Locations
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Military site : airfield
Now home to a museum all about the aifield and its USAAF residents (http://www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk/) , Bassingbourn opened in 1938 as part of the RAF's pre-war expansion programme. The RAF continued to use it until late in 1942 when its long...