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San Giovanni Airfield, Italy
Home of the 454th and 455th Bomb Groups
Connections
Units
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455th Bomb Group
Group
The group was activated July 1943 with four essentially stand-alone bomb squadrons: 740th, 741st, 742nd, and 743rd. After a somewhat nomadic training regimen with dilapidated equipment, the pieces of the group came together at Langley, VA in October... -
454th Bomb Group
Group
The group was constituted as 454th Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 14 May 1943 and activated on 1 June at Davis-Monthan Field, near Tucson, Arizona. Training began immediately on Consolidated B-24 Liberators[2] and the ground cadre was sent on 3 July to...
Locations
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San Giovanni
Military site : airfield
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 16 January 2016 02:24:42 | 466thHistorian | Changes to place associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 16 January 2016 02:23:54 | 466thHistorian | Changes to unit associations |
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http://www.forgottenairfields.com/italy/apulia/foggia/san-giovanni-s572.... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 16 January 2016 02:23:24 | 466thHistorian | Created entry with caption, unit associations and place associations |
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http://www.forgottenairfields.com/italy/apulia/foggia/san-giovanni-s572.... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 16 January 2016 02:23:24 | 466thHistorian | Changes to place associations |
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http://www.forgottenairfields.com/italy/apulia/foggia/san-giovanni-s572.... |
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