3rd Air Division
Division
In December 1944, the 3rd Bomb Division was redesginated the 3rd Air Division.
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Military
AWARDS:
Air Medal with 3 oak leaf clusters
Distinguished Flying Cross
American Campaign Medal
WWII Victory Medal
Occupation Medal (Germany)
Euro-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
United Nations Service Medal
Korean Service Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Air Force Longevity Service Medal with 4 bronze oak leaf clusters
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Armed Forces Reserve Medal
Combat flight records indicate mission flown on June 5, 1944. The 490th did not fly on this date and the veteran had the certain recollection of flying on June 6, 1944.
Division
In December 1944, the 3rd Bomb Division was redesginated the 3rd Air Division.
Wing
Although equipped with B-24 aircraft, I believe that association with 2nd BD/AD is in error. Moreover, the Group had converted to B-17 before the designation of the 2nd Air Division. The Group carried 3rd Bomb Division markings throughout its combat...
Group
The 490th Bomb Group, like the 486th and 487th Bomb Groups transitioned from flying B-24 Liberators to B-17 Flying Fortresses, which were used in combat missions from late August 1944. Based at Eye, Suffolk, the Group were focused in the early months...
Squadron
31 May 1944
Bombed the marshaling yards. Heavy flak but no hits.
6 June 1944
D-Day. Start of Operation Overlord.
8 June 1944
Mission #7 - Bombed the railway yards in Tours, France. Long ride (7 hours).
11 June 1944
Flew a sortie flight to the French Coast at 24,000 feet. 8th Combat Flight. No flak.
12 June 1944
Willie Hussong got his arm caught in the door of the lower ball turret. Palmer and Rollinger pried him out with a gun barrel. Bombed an airfield. Hussong hospitalized.
15 June 1944
20 June 1944
Bombed an airfield. We were hit by flak; a piece hit Palmer's armor plate and another hit a gas tank. Probriefed in the evening for a big secret mission.
20 June 1944
22 June 1944
24 June 1944
Military site : airfield
Eye air base was not a Class A base but was constructed to a less demanding standard by the 827th and 859th Battalions of U.S. Army Engineers in 1943 and was finished in early 1944. Unusually, a group of its hardstandings were on the other side of the...
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22 March 2019 18:44:33 | Outhier | Changes to role |
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22 March 2019 18:41:01 | Outhier | Changes to biography |
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22 March 2019 18:37:41 | Outhier | Changes to media associations |
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22 March 2019 18:31:02 | Outhier | Changes to media associations |
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27 February 2019 22:59:50 | Outhier | Changes to mission associations |
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NARA Enlistment and Retirement Records; |
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27 February 2019 21:53:08 | Outhier | Changes to biography |
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NARA Enlistment and Retirement Records; |
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27 February 2019 21:51:01 | Outhier | Changes to mission associations |
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NARA Enlistment and Retirement Records; |
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27 February 2019 01:30:29 | Outhier | Changes to aircraft associations |
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NARA Enlistment and Retirement records; |
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27 February 2019 00:01:52 | Outhier | Changes to biography and mission associations |
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NARA Enlistment and Retirement records; |
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26 February 2019 23:26:48 | Outhier | Changes to mission associations |
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NARA Enlistment and Retirement documents; |
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25 February 2019 01:26:46 | Outhier | Changes to unit associations |
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NARA Enlistment and Retirement Records; |
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25 February 2019 01:17:44 | Outhier | Changes to place associations |
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24 February 2019 23:39:21 | Outhier | Created entry with surname, middlename, firstname, nationality, service number, highest rank, role, unit associations, place associations and mission associations |
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NARA WWII Enlistment and Retirement Records |