41-23667 Ball of Fire Barber Bob
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Assigned to 330BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. Waist gunner S/Sgt Arthur L Crandall made the 8AF first kill when he downed a Fw190 on 9-Oct-42. War-Weary became group's assembly ship decorated with multicoloured stripes hence the Barber's influenced renaming.
Ship in flight b&w https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/consolidated-b-24-liberator.41934…
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 455th Bomb Group 93rd Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: 16041581 / O-53805
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15082720
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14031789
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flight engineer / Top turret
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron 409th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-024034
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot / pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19052873 / O-437682
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Revisions
Mission to Berlin: The American Airmen Who Struck the Heart of Hitler's Reich By Robert F. Dorr
B-24 Liberator Units of the Eighth Air Force By Robert F Dorr
Mission to Berlin: The American Airmen Who Struck the Heart of Hitler's Reich By Robert F. Dorr
B-24 Liberator Units of the Eighth Air Force By Robert F Dorr