IWM catalogue record
This contains information written on the back of the original print and some of it may be inaccurate.
Ground personnel of the 386th Bomb Group load bombs into a B-26 Marauder. Image via Skip Young. Written on slide casing: 'Loading bombs, Boxted, 386 BG.'
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Group
The 386th Bomb Group flew B-26 Marauders for the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces. Whilst with the Eighth, the Group developed the formation release procedure for the B-26 on missions that targeted aerodromes, marshalling yards and V-weapon sites along the...
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Military site : airfield
Boxted was built for heavy bombers and became operational from May 1943. In the few months B-26 Marauders of the 386th Bomb Group were stationed there, there were two night attacks by the Luftwaffe. On 17 August 1943, one man was killed when bombs...