15th Air Force
The Fifteenth Air Force was one of two Strategic Air forces in Europe, along with the Eighth Air Force.
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B-24J-65-CF #44-10560
Fresh from the factory. This a/c served with the 455th Bomb Group - 743rd Bomb Squadron - 15th AF
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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... -
743rd Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Established as a B-24 Liberator heavy bombardment unit in mid-1943; assigned to II Bomber Command for training. Primarily trained in New Mexico and Utah received deployment orders for the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) in November 1943....
Aircraft
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44-10560
B-24 Liberator
Locations
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San Giovanni
Military site : airfield
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 07 November 2016 14:50:18 | 466thHistorian | Changes to place associations |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 07 November 2016 14:50:17 | 466thHistorian | Created entry with collection, caption, unit associations and place associations |
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