778th Bomb Squadron
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B-24H-30-FO #42-95364 "Wheel N' Deal" Code: White V
464th BG - 778th BS - 15th AF 466th Bomb Group collection
464th BG - 778th BS - 15th AF 466th Bomb Group collection
"Air Stories 0 12th & 15th Air Forces" - Gerard Paloque
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Established as a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber squadron in mid-1943, trained under Second Air Force. Deployed to Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO), October 1943, becoming a Fifteenth Air Force heavy bomb squadron, attacking enemy targets both in the MTO and European Theater of Operations (ETO). After end of war in Europe, used B-24s for transport of personnel from various points in Europe to Waller Field, Trinidad, being attached to Air Transport Command. Inactivated 31 July 1945.
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- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 464th Bomb Group 778th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14100688 / O-668851
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 464th Bomb Group 778th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2056750
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Radar Bombardier
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