8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; Bismark 5/4/44; MacDill 10/4/44; 4050 BU Daniel 6/11/44; 325 BU Avon Park 22/11/44; 554 BU Memphis 5/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 12/12/45.
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96th Bomb Group
Group
The 96th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses to targets across occupied Europe from May 1943 to April 1945. ...
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Snetterton
Military site : non-airfield
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Snetterton Heath
Military site : airfield
Intended to be an RAF bomber base, construction of Snetterton Heath started in Autumn 1942 but continued until mid-1943, because it was extended after allocation as an Eighth Air Force bomber base. It had eventually three concrete runways, 50...
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 29 May 2020 19:23:40 | kstrykerAK | Changes to manufacturer, nicknames, unit associations and place associations |
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Snetterton Falcons II: The 96th Bomb Group in World War II by Robert E Doherty & Geoffrey Ward, Second Edition with Errata & Supplemental Information, Taylor Publishing, 1996. page 293 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:12 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log |
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