Headquarters Squadron (8th Air Force)

Squadron

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: Headquarters Squadron (8th Air Force) Headquarters (Eighth Air Force)
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Administration
Major Sidney Bartlett, aide to General Carl Spaatz, with his wife Ellen Drew, after flying a mission with the RAF. Image stamped on reverse: 'Planet News.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 28 Mar 1943.' [stamp] and 255545.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'FIRST AMERICAN TO BOMB BERLIN. Taking part in the RAFs great raid on Berlin was Major S S Bartlett, of the US Army Air Force Bomber Command. Major Bartlett took his place as a member of the crew of a Lancaster, acting as bomb aimer, thus becomi
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: Headquarters Squadron (8th Air Force) Headquarters (Eighth Air Force)
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Aide; Gen Spaatz; Intelligence
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: Headquarters Squadron (8th Air Force) Headquarters (Eighth Air Force)
  • Service Numbers: 6802904 / 2110288
  • Role/Job: Historian
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: Headquarters Squadron (8th Air Force) Headquarters (Eighth Air Force)
  • Service Numbers: O-278412
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: War Room Commander
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group Headquarters Squadron (8th Air Force)
  • Service Numbers: O417305
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Staff

Aircraft

Film Director Major William Wyler looks through the waist gun position of a B-17 Flying Fortress (DF-B) of the 91st Bomb Group during the filming of 'Memphis Belle'. Passed as censored 1 Feb 1943. Printed caption on reverse: 'How a Flying Fortress Protects Itself: Major William Wyler, who directed the famous film 'Mrs Minniver', is now busy directing an instructional film for the U.S. Army Air Force, showing how a 'Flying Fortress' protects itself against attack by enemy fighters. The Fortress is loaded w
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The Bad Penny
  • Unit: 403rd Air Depot 91st Bomb Group 322nd Bomb Squadron 324th Bomb Squadron Headquarters Squadron (8th Air Force)
  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 339th Fighter Group 359th Fighter Group 368th Fighter Squadron 503rd Fighter Squadron Headquarters Squadron (8th Air Force)
  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 355th Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 334th Fighter Squadron 357th Fighter Squadron Headquarters Squadron (8th Air Force)
  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Unit: Headquarters Squadron (8th Air Force)
  • Aircraft Type: Lysander
  • Unit: Headquarters Squadron (8th Air Force) Headquarters (Eighth Air Force)

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia