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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IWM catalogue record
This contains information written on the back of the original print and some of it may be inaccurate.
A B-24 Liberator (serial number 44-50468) of the 455th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force which crashed landed on its nose as a result of a freak accident on take off, 1945. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Extraordinary take off crash, Italy.'
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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...
Aircraft
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44-50468
B-24 Liberator
Locations
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San Giovanni
Military site : airfield
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 07 November 2016 02:01:13 | 466thHistorian | Changes to place associations |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 02 February 2015 10:00:04 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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IWM, Roger Freeman Collection |
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