846th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
Personnel of the 846th Bomb Squadron, 489th Bomb Group. Image via Robert Buck. Written on slide casing: '846th personnel.' media-395611.jpg FRE 6789 Personnel of the 846th Bomb Squadron, 489th Bomb Group. Image via Robert Buck. Written on slide casing: '846th personnel.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 6789 - Personnel of the 846th Bomb Squadron, 489th Bomb Group. Image via Robert Buck. Written on slide casing: '846th personnel.'

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Halesworth

People

Burke I Anderson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 489th Bomb Group 846th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant

Billie F Bell

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 489th Bomb Group 846th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant

Arthur H Benson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 489th Bomb Group 846th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Private First Class

Arthur P Bertanzetti

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 489th Bomb Group 846th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Albert W Boam

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 489th Bomb Group 846th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Aircraft

41-29533

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 489th Bomb Group 846th Bomb Squadron
A B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-50437) nicknamed "Apassionata" of the 489th Bomb Group. Image via Robert Buck. Written on slide casing: '"Apassionata", 42059437.'

42-50437

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Apassionata
  • Unit: 389th Bomb Group 489th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron 846th Bomb Squadron

42-94854

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: No Nookie Now
  • Unit: 489th Bomb Group 846th Bomb Squadron
Ground personnel of the 489th Bomb Group work on the engine of B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-94860) nicknamed "Happy Warrior". Image via Robert Buck. Written on slide casing: '42-94860, +X. 846th Sqdn, late summer 1944.'

42-94860

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Appassianato Happy Warrior
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 489th Bomb Group 703rd Bomb Squadron 846th Bomb Squadron

42-94864

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Stinky
  • Unit: 489th Bomb Group 846th Bomb Squadron

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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)

846th Bomb Squadron: Gallery (10 items)

Ground personnel of the 489th Bomb Group work on the engine of B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-94860) nicknamed "Happy Warrior". Image via Robert Buck. Written on slide casing: '42-94860, +X. 846th Sqdn, late summer 1944.'

Object number: FRE 6786 - Ground personnel of the 489th Bomb Group work on...

Personnel of the 846th Bomb Squadron, 489th Bomb Group. Image via Robert Buck. Written on slide casing: '846th personnel.'

Object number: FRE 6789 - Personnel of the 846th Bomb Squadron, 489th Bomb...

A B-24 Liberator (8R-B, serial number 44-40072) of the 846th Bomb Squadron, 489th Bomb Group in France in 1945 or 46. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'France, 1945 or 1946. From [P.] Gandillet Files. 212.'

Object number: FRE 8554 - A B-24 Liberator (8R-B, serial number 44-40072) "B...

Two B-17 Flying Fortresses are flying over Munich on the 21st of July 1944 on the day's raid. Close to the middle at the bottom is a 489th Bomb Group aircraft (8R-U) of the 846th Bomb Squadron, and in the top left is a 466th Bomb Group aircraft ('U8') of the 786th Bomb Squadron. Handwritten caption on reverse: '(W) 8R+U & (L) U8? Munich, 21/7/44.'

Object number: FRE 8564 - Two B-17 Flying Fortresses are flying over Munich...

An 846th Bomb Squadron, 489th Bomb Group B-24 Liberator (8R-N) takes off from Halesworth airfield.

Object number: FRE 8571 - An 846th Bomb Squadron, 489th Bomb Group B-24...

Object number: UPL 22981 - A B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-50437)...

Object number: UPL 49779 - 44-40072 B.T.O. (Big Time Operator) The B.T.O...

Object number: UPL 49780 - The men in this shot are unidentified, as is the...

Object number: UPL 50215 - Thomas L. McQuoid, Co-Pilot, 846 BS, 489 BG