36th Bomb Squadron
SquadronIWM, Roger Freeman Collection
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Unit stations
Station | Location | Date |
---|---|---|
Based |
Harrington |
Previously was
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 36th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 36th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 36th Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 36th Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 482nd Bomb Group 36th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer; Top Turret Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Charlene
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 36th Bomb Squadron 562nd Bomb Squadron 803rd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 337th Bomb Squadron 36th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Screamin Mimi
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 801st Bomb Group 36th Bomb Squadron 564th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Beast of Bourbon
- Unit: 482nd Bomb Group 36th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Lady Jane
- Unit: 36th Bomb Squadron 482nd Bomb Group
Mission
- Date: 7 October 1944
- Date: 4 October 1944
- Date: 7 September 1944
- Date: 26 August 1944
- Date: 5 April 1944
Revisions
1. website https://heroesofourtime.co.uk/the-36th-bomb-squadron_us_raf100group.html
2. Squadron Of Deception by Stephen Hutton
3. Statements from my father, Henry Switzgable, nose gunner in the 36th Bomb Squadron
547th Bombardment Squadron Morning Report dated 20August 1944.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / 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)