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18th Weather Squadron

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  • 18th Weather Squadron personnel at Bolling Field before deploying overseas

    18th Weather Squadron personnel at Bolling Field before deploying overseas

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  • Bishop Adna Wright Leonard with Colonel Anthony Mustoe and Brigadier General Chauncey. Image stamped on reverse: 'Confidential.' [stamp],'Passed for publication 27 Apr 1943.' [stamp] and '26114.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'Bishop Adna Wright Leonard, Was DC, Chairman of the General Committee of Army and Navy Chaplains at a US Air force Headquarters in England. Greeting him is Col Anthony O Mustoe, weather office, Hot Springs VA, while Brig Gen Chauncey, Air Force Chief of Staff effects the introduction.'

    Bishop Adna Wright Leonard with Colonel Anthony Mustoe and Brigadier General Chauncey. Image stamped on reverse: 'Confidential.' [stamp],'Passed for publication 27 Apr 1943.' [stamp] and '26114.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'Bishop Adna Wright Leonard, Was DC, Chairman of the General Committee of Army and Navy Chaplains at a US Air force Headquarters in England. Greeting him is Col Anthony O Mustoe, weather office, Hot Springs VA, while Brig Gen Chauncey, Air Force Chief of Staff effects the introduction.'

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  • 18th Weather Squadron

    18th Weather Squadron

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  • Page 02 of the 385th Bomb Group unit history. Many of the 8th Air Force Groups produced an unofficial unit history in the months after the war ended in Europe but before they were redeployed out of the ETO (European Theater of Operations). Resembling a college yearbook, unit histories were an unofficial – and often tongue-in-cheek – record of the unit’s time based in the UK. They include photo montages showing different aspects of base life. Often the servicemen in the photos are unnamed. The American Air Museum hopes that by adding unit histories to the website as individual pages, the men in the photos will be identified and associated to their person entries. Many included lists of personnel and a mailing address, providing a means for servicemen to keep in contact with each other after the war. These lists are now incredibly useful records of where US airmen in England in 1945 called their home.

    Page 02 of the 385th Bomb Group unit history. Many of the 8th Air Force Groups produced an unofficial unit history in the months after the war ended in Europe but before they were redeployed out of the ETO (European Theater of Operations). Resembling a college yearbook, unit histories were an unofficial – and often tongue-in-cheek – record of the unit’s time based in the UK. They include photo montages showing different aspects of base life. Often the servicemen in the photos are unnamed. The American Air Museum hopes that by adding unit histories to the website as individual pages, the men in the photos will be identified and associated to their person entries. Many included lists of personnel and a mailing address, providing a means for servicemen to keep in contact with each other after the war. These lists are now incredibly useful records of where US airmen in England in 1945 called their home.

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  • Paul Scherb, Meteorology Officer

    Paul Scherb, Meteorology Officer

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  • 303rd Bomb Group Unit History

    303rd Bomb Group Unit History

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  • Lt. Walter J Saucier, Commanding Officer, 303rd Bomb Group, 18th Weather Squadron, Detachment 107

    Lt. Walter J Saucier, Commanding Officer, 303rd Bomb Group, 18th Weather Squadron, Detachment 107

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Browse 18th Weather Squadron photographs and other documents in the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library digital archive here: www.2ndair.org.uk/digitalarchive/Dashboard/Index/60

Structure

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    VIII Air Force Composite Command

    Command

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    65th Fighter Wing

    Wing
    Browse 65th Fighter Wing photographs and other documents in the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library digital archive here: www.2ndair.org.uk/digitalarchive/Dashboard/Index/51

  • 66th Fighter Wing

    66th Fighter Wing

    Wing

  • 97th Combat Bomb Wing

    97th Combat Bomb Wing

    Wing

  • 303rd Bomb Group

    303rd Bomb Group

    Group
    The 303rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated on 3-Feb-1942 at Pendleton Field, Oregon. They assembled at Gowen Field, Idaho on 11-February 1942 where it conducted flight training until 12-Jun-1942. The Group then moved to Alamogordo Field, New...

  • 381st Bomb Group

    381st Bomb Group

    Group
    The 381st Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Ridgewell, Essex between June 1943 and April 1945. The Group was awarded two Distinguished Unit Citations, the first for bombing shipyards at Bremen, whilst under heavy attack, on 8 October 1943 and...

  • 384th Bomb Group

    384th Bomb Group

    Group
    The 384th Bomb Group flew B-17s from Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire, between May 1943 and June 1945. They were engaged in daylight bombing missions over Germany as part of the Allies' efforts to destroy the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe by...

  • 458th Bomb Group

    458th Bomb Group

    Group
    The 458th Bomb Group (H) entered combat with the 8th Air Force in February 1944. Based at Horsham St. Faith in England, the combat crews participated in the decisive Campaigns 'Big Week', 'Big B', D-Day and the assault on Germany's oil industry waged...

  • 493rd Bomb Group

    493rd Bomb Group

    Group
    The 493rd Bomb Group was the last Eighth Air Force Group to become operational, flying their first combat mission from Debach, Suffolk, on D-Day, 6 June 1944. The Group was known as "the Fighting 493rd", named by their Commanding Officer Colonel Elbert...

  • 324th Bomb Squadron

    324th Bomb Squadron

    Squadron
    Home of the Memphis Belle

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Stations

Station Location Date
Based Alconbury
Based Atcham
Based Attlebridge
Based Bassingbourn
Based Bodney
Based Bottisham
Based Bovingdon
Based Brampton Grange
Based Bungay
Based Burtonwood
Based Bury St Edmunds
Based Bushey Hall
Based Cheddington
Based Chelveston
Based Cluntoe
Based Cranford
Based Debach
Based Debden
Based Deenethorpe
Based Deopham Green
Based Duxford
Based East Wretham
Based Elveden Hall
Based Eye
Based Fowlmere
Based Framlingham
Based Glatton
Based
Based Gosfield
Based Goxhill
Based Grafton Underwood
Based Great Ashfield
Based Greencastle
Based Halesworth
Based Hardwick
Based Harrington
Based Hendon
Based Heston
Based Hethel
Based High Wycombe
Based Hitcham
Based Honington
Based Horham
Based Horsham St Faith
Based Ketteringham Hall
Based Kimbolton
Based Kings Cliffe
Based Knettishall
Based Langford Lodge
Based Lavenham
Based Leiston
Based Little Staughton
Based Maghaberry
Based Martlesham Heath
Based Mendlesham
Based Metfield
Based Molesworth
Based Mount Farm
Based Mousehole
Based Mullaghmore
Based Neaton
Based Nuthampstead
Based Nutts Corner
Based Old Buckenham
Based Podington
Based Polebrook
Based Prestwick
Based Rackheath
Based Rattlesden
Based Ridgewell
Based Saffron Walden
Based Sawston Hall
Based Seething
Based Shipdham
Based Snetterton Heath
Based St Mawgan
Based Steeple Morden
Based Stornoway
Based Sudbury
Based Teddington
Based Thorpe Abbotts
Based Thruxton
Based Thurleigh
Based Tibenham
Based Toome
Based Troston
Based Valley
Based Walcot Hall
Based Warton
Based Wattisham
Based Wendling

Connections

People

  • Harry Alter

    Military | Corporal | Weather Observer | 34th Bomb Group

  • Henry Arseneaux

    Military | Sergeant | Weather Observer | 385th Bomb Group

  • Kenneth Bailey

    Military | Sergeant | Weather | 352nd Fighter Group
    Was 1st person sent to Bodney as weather personnel by 8thAF Hdqrs/ 2 weeks later he was assigned to Det 141, 18thWeather Squadron/ 352nd FG

  • G Baker

    Military | GP

  • H Barksdale

    Military | Weather Specialist

  • Albert Basnett

    Military | 20th Fighter Group

  • Joseph Bauman

    Military | GP

  • Joseph Bauman

    Military | Sergeant

  • K Beacom

    Military | Sergeant | Weather Specialist

  • Jack Beck

    Military | Staff Sergeant | Weather Observer | 493rd Bomb Group

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Air Force
8th
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Revisions

Date Contributor Update
17 May 2018 07:38:38 Darren Jelley Changes to unit encompassing associations and person associations
Sources

493rd BG Archives
Date Contributor Update
09 March 2018 15:56:54 2nd Air Division Memorial Library Changes to description
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2nd Air Division Memorial Library
Date Contributor Update
02 February 2016 22:47:58 bombercommand Changes to unit encompassing associations
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384thbombgroup.com
Date Contributor Update
21 January 2016 03:42:27 Kirwin Changes to media associations
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Craig Kirwin
Date Contributor Update
19 January 2016 19:39:27 Kirwin Changes to media associations
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Craig Kirwin
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:42:47 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)

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