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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This contains information written on the back of the original print and some of it may be inaccurate.
A mural of the 8th Air Force insignia, painted onto a wall at Bottisham, home of the 361st Fighter Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Bottisham.'
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361st Fighter Group
Group
The 361st Fighter Group was the last P-47 Thunderbolt Group to join the Eighth Air Force. Between 21 January 1944 and 20 April 1945, the Group flew 441 missions, the majority in an escort role in support of bombers flying over occupied Europe. The...
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Bottisham
Military site : airfield
The P-47 Thunderbolts of the 361st Fighter Group damaged the surfaces of the airfield so much in the first months of flying from Bottisham that American engineers were called in to lay a new runway. In January 1944 they constructed a 1,470-yard-long...
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 08 September 2014 15:26:42 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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IWM, Roger Freeman Collection |
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