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# 41-11825 'Hail Columbia" - B-24D - Four Added .50 cal Nose Guns For Ploesti Mission 1943
Group
The 44th Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 15-January-1942 at McDill Field, Florida and equipped with B-24Cs. The Group moved to Barksdale Field, Louisiana and acted as a training unit for the 90th 93rd and 98th Bomb Groups and flew anti...
Group
The 98th trained for bombardment missions with B-24 Liberators during the first half of 1942.
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Military | Major | B-24 Command Pilot
Lieutenant John S. Young from Dallas, Texas, called "Big John" or "Johnny" by his friends and crewmen, was a B-24D Liberator bomber pilot with the 9th Air Force, 98th Bomb Group and the 344th Bombing Squadron, based at Cairo, Egypt, Tobruk, and...
B-24 Liberator
This aircraft originally served in the 9th Air Force, the 98th Bomb Group, and the 344th Bomb Squadron as 'HAIL COLUMBIA'. It was 344th's CO Col. John R. Kane's personal aircraft until Kane became the 98th Bomb Group CO and turned it over to Herman ...
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| 10 July 2019 10:17:46 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to person associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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Removed associations not depicted in image. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 07 July 2019 20:36:08 | Kickapoo | Created entry with collection, caption, unit associations, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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Anatomy Of A Disaster - Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg ---- Black Sunday - Michael Hill ---- Into The Fire - Duane Schultz ---- TogetherWeServed.com ---- FindAGrave.com ---- Personal Archives - John S. Young |
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