479th Anti-Submarine Group
Group
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 9307 - A B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-63773) of the 479th Anti Submarine Group. This aircraft would later join the 492nd Bomb Group. Handwritten caption...
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Unit stations
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Encompassing
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group 19th Anti-Submarine Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group 19th Anti-Submarine Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14070558
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group 4th Anti-Submarine Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15017508
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radar Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group 19th Anti-Submarine Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12026756
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Aerial Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group 4th Anti-Submarine Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineer
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: The Sea Hawk
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group 19th Anti-Submarine Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Black Magic
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group 801st Bomb Group 406th Bomb Squadron
Mission
- Date: 8 September 1943
- Date: 8 August 1943
Revisions
ContributorLucy May
Changes
Sources
Brought in aircraft associated to a duplicate unit record. Source:
Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
ContributorCole
Changes
Sources
Family History, Eighth Air Force Museum, Missing Air Crew Report for the crew of "The Sea Hawk" aircraft.
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
