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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John R Barnes
Military
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Crew members Pilot Lt. Frank Calicura, Navigator Lt. John Barnes, and Co-Pilot Lt Victor G. Probst, London, England, Feb.1945.
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the "Spirit of Martinez" or "Cal Rascals" crew at base in Horham, UK circa 1945
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"Bomber Captured Spirit of City"
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Pre-assignment signatures from Lt. Frank Calicura and crew ( Cal's Rascals), in preparation for ETO.
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John Barnes was born January 31, 1922 in Philadelphia, PA, the son of Leonard and Gertrude Barnes of Emporium, PA . He received his undergraduate and Ph.D from Penn State University. He served in WWII as the navigator of the “Spirit of Martinez with the 95th Bombardment Group/3rd Air Division/Army Air Corp at Horham, England. He spent his entire professional career with E. I. DuPont where he worked at Haskell Laboratory as the Director of Pathology. He retired in 1982 and for a number of years did charitable work within.
John R. Barnes, 89, passed away June 2, 2011 in Wellsboro, PA.
Service
Units served with
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3rd Air Division
Division
In December 1944, the 3rd Bomb Division was redesginated the 3rd Air Division. -
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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... -
335th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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43-38942 'Belligerent Beauty'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Hunter 20/10/44; Dow Fd 28/10/44; Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-N] Molesworth 1/11/44; transferred 335BS/95BG [OE-Y] Horham 2/11/44; with N.W. Richardson force landed A-7 Laon AF, Fr 5/1/45; 51m, Returned to the USA Bradley 20/6/45; 4168 Base Unit... -
44-6838 Spirit of Martinez, Cal's Rascals
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Hunter 27/11/44; Grenier 16/12/44; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-E] Horham 1/1/45; battle damaged Chemnitz 6/2/45 with D.V. Tregoning, force landed B-53, Merville, Bel. then rep; 53m, Returned to the USA Bradley 21/6/45; Sth Plains 23/6/45;... -
44-8269 'The Red Fox'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Dallas 28/7/44; Cheyenne 3/8/44; Grenier 8/9/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-K] Horham 10/9/44; 335BS [OG-K]; 73m, Returned to the USA Bradley 21/6/45; Sth Plains 24/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 2...
Missions
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832
15 February 1945
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835
19 February 1945
1,100 Heavies Hit Nazi Rails ... -
836
20 February 1945
"Continuing their offensive against the Nazi communications, 900 Fortresses of the 8th Air Force, attacking in two giant waves, thundered over Nuremberg yesterday to shower the cities huge railway yards and locomotive repair shops with more than 11,000... -
847
25 February 1945
"The Aerial Sledgehammer fashioned by bombers of the 8th and 15th Air Forces and the RAF fell on German communications and fuel supplies for the forth day in a row yesterday as 1,150 Fortresses and Liberators of the 8th hit railyards, airfields, an oil... -
883
12 March 1945
Heavies Hit Near Rhine, Along Baltic ... -
886
14 March 1945
"1,250 Heavies Strike Tanks, Gun Factories Near Hanover" ... -
898
20 March 1945
Narrative - Official Air Force Mission Description ... -
8th Air Force 908
23 March 1945
Narrative - Official Air Force Mission Description ... -
8th Air Force 911
24 March 1945
"8th AF Aided Paratroops ... -
8th Air Force 931
7 April 1945
1,200 Heavies Hit Reich After 1-Day Nazi Air Bid ...
Revisions
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| 18 November 2018 09:18:48 | spiritofmartinez45 | Changes to biography |
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the son, John Barnes. |
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| 18 November 2018 09:16:50 | spiritofmartinez45 | Changes to biography |
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The son John Barnes. |
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| 17 September 2018 19:50:25 | spiritofmartinez45 | Changes to unit associations |
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| 14 September 2018 07:58:18 | spiritofmartinez45 | Changes to unit associations |
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| 13 September 2018 05:03:21 | spiritofmartinez45 | Changes to aircraft associations |
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| 12 September 2018 05:53:17 | spiritofmartinez45 | Changes to unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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| 12 September 2018 05:05:25 | spiritofmartinez45 | Changes to aircraft associations |
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| 27 September 2014 18:16:34 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php |
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