20th Combat Bomb Wing
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Commanding Officer of the 93rd Bomb Group 9-August-1943 to 27-Sep-1944.
Air Executive with Headquarters (381st Bomb Group). Commanding Officer 20th BG, 17 May 1945. Deputy Wing Commander 20th Combat Bomb Wing, 18 June 1945.
Group
The 381st Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Ridgewell, Essex between June 1943 and April 1945. The Group was awarded two Distinguished Unit Citations, the first for bombing shipyards at Bremen, whilst under heavy attack, on 8 October 1943 and...
Group
93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 1-March-1942 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. On 15-May-1942 the Group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida to continue advanced flight training and also to fly anti-submarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico; they...
Headquarters
B-24 Liberator
Military site : airfield
Planned as an RAF bomber airfield, Hardwick was used first by the 310th Bomb Group, equipped with B-25 Mitchells. In December 1943, the B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group moved in, and remained until the end of the war, flying over 330 missions....
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25 October 2016 19:07:57 | John Fiegel | Changes to unit associations and aircraft associations |
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family records |
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25 October 2016 19:01:43 | John Fiegel | Changes to middlename, nickname, role, biography and awards |
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From family records. |
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18 November 2014 11:16:47 | Lucy May | Changes to service number, role, biography and unit associations |
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Combined two entries for 'Leland G Fiegel'. This entry now includes information from the following source: |
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09 November 2014 20:24:53 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to highest rank, role, biography and place associations |
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Lee Cunningham 9-Nov-2014. http://www.usaaf.com/8thaf/bomber/93bg.HTM. |
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27 September 2014 18:18:24 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / roster |