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Kenneth R. Hansen ETO Ration Card

Connections

Units

  • 8th Air Force

    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. ...

  • 96th Bomb Group

    96th Bomb Group

    Group
    The 96th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses to targets across occupied Europe from May 1943 to April 1945. ...

  • 338th Bomb Squadron

    338th Bomb Squadron

    Squadron

Locations

  • Eccles

    Military site : non-airfield
    Exact location unknown - centred on the Eccles Road area adjacent to Snetterton Heath 138. There is an active, but un-manned railway station there that would probably have been used in Eccles proposed capacity as a Strategic Air Depot Area. However,...

  • Snetterton

    Military site : non-airfield

  • Snetterton Heath

    Military site : airfield
    Intended to be an RAF bomber base, construction of Snetterton Heath started in Autumn 1942 but continued until mid-1943, because it was extended after allocation as an Eighth Air Force bomber base. It had eventually three concrete runways, 50...

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Collection name
Neal T. Hurst
Object number
UPL 32702

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
11 April 2018 12:46:12 kneelhurst Created entry with collection, caption, unit associations, person associations and place associations
Sources

I collect objects from the 96th Bomb Group as my great Uncle served with them in WW2. These two pieces of ephemera are fairly rare and help to document the rest of this airmen's story.

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