Curtis LeMay
Military | General | Commanding General | 305th Bomb Group Can Do
306th Temporary Deputy Commander at Wendover, then transferred as Group Commander of 305th BG 4-Jun-42 to 15-May-43.
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Division
The 3rd Bomb Division was Constituted in August 1943. In December 1944, the Division was redesginated the 3rd Air Division.
Constituted as 3d Bombardment Division on 30 Aug 1943. Activated in England on 13 Sep 1943. Assigned to Eighth AF. Redesignated 3d Air Division in Dec 1944.
Military | General | Commanding General | 305th Bomb Group Can Do
306th Temporary Deputy Commander at Wendover, then transferred as Group Commander of 305th BG 4-Jun-42 to 15-May-43.
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Military | General | Commanding General
Formerly command pilot. CG 3rd AD 21 June 1944 to May 1945. Retired 31 July 1959.
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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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Command
VIII Bomber Command was constituted and activated in 1942. It oversaw heavy bombardment operations until February 1944, when it was redesginated as the 8th Air Force.
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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...
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Division
In December 1944, the 3rd Bomb Division was redesginated the 3rd Air Division.
1 April 1944
The industrial areas of Ludwigshafen was the traget for this mission, but the mission was frustrated by heavy cloud cover and navigational errors that resulted in the mission going haywire. 3rd Air Division and 2nd Air Division despatch heavy bombers....
8 April 1944
9 April 1944
10 April 1944
11 April 1944
12 April 1944
13 April 1944
18 April 1944
The handwritten log of my father, Horace O. "Hank" Turner, states this.. "Started to raid Berlin, bad weather and we bombed Brandenberg. formation bad and flak terrific." He had marked it with an "x", which he noted meant that "Our plane was hit by...
19 April 1944
20 April 1944
Station | Location | Date |
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Based | Elveden Hall | 13 September 1943 – October 1943 |
Based | Honington | October 1943 – December 1944 |
Redesignated | December 1944 |
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 100th Bomb Group
Sgt Gilbert A. Borba, only survivor, all other crew were Killed in Action (KIA) 08-08-1944 Shot down by flak and crashed near St Sylvain, France in B-17 "Varga Venus" #4337865
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 390th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner/Engineer | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 11 April 1944 in B-17 #4297129. His B-17 was shot down at Stutebuell, 3 kms north west of Kappeln, near Schleswig, near the German/Denmark border at 2.15pm.
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Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 96th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed ner Parchim in B-17 'Green Weenie' #43-38644 on 5 Dec 44
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
POW crashed near Parchim on 5 Dec 44 in B-17 'Green Weenie' #4338644
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
POW crashed near Parchim in B-17 'Green Weenie' #4338644 on 5 Dec 44
Military | Flight Officer | Bombardier | 96th Bomb Group
F/O James (Jim) N. Hentges (USAAF) WWII Veteran and POW.
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Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Aircraft Plotter
Geraldine Hill, or Gerry as she was called, achieved the rank of Sergeant in the Women's Army Corps as an enlisted woman pioneer who was stationed in England during World War II. She plotted the courses of Allied planes in flight over England and...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Military | Captain
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 17/2/43; Gore Fd 8/3/43; Gulfport 31/3/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-P] Alconbury 5/4/43; 335BS [OE-P]; 6m, transferred 92BG Alconbury 12/6/43 but switched to 3BD HQ as hack for Curtis Le May; Returned to the USA Grenier 26/12/44;...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Dallas 22/6/44; Langley 27/7/44; Grenier 11/8/44; Assigned PFF as 369BS/306BG [WW-K] Thurleigh 13/8/44; transferred 95BG Horham 14/8/44; 3m, transferred 100BG Thorpe Abbotts 30/10/44; battle damaged Hamm 26/11/44 with ?; force landed St Trond...
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04 September 2019 14:15:42 | Emily | Changes to type, us air force combat units of world war ii description, aircraft types, unit became association, commanding officers associations and stations |
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Air Force Combat Units of World War II |
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10 March 2016 02:03:24 | Jameswbrice | Changes to mission associations and media associations |
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James W Brice |
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09 December 2014 21:24:57 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to unit encompassing associations and mission associations |
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Lee Cunningham 9-Dec-2014 Corrected association from VIII Fighter Command to VIII Bomber Command. |
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09 December 2014 21:21:42 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to type, aircraft types and mission associations |
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Lee Cunningham 9-Dec-2014. Added info to Basic Details per my own research. Primary sources: Roger A. Freeman and Stan Bishop. |
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27 September 2014 18:42:44 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980) |