1st Combat Bomb Wing

Wing
media-39371.png UPL 39371 First Combat Wing logo of the 398th.Nuthampstead. Nuthampstead Airfield Museum collection

398th Bomb Group Collection via Nuthampstead Airfield Museum. Museum object reference number: 398BG2-1

Object Number - UPL 39371 - First Combat Wing logo of the 398th.Nuthampstead.

Commanding Officers

Colonel Frank A. Armstrong of the 97th Bomb Group in the cockpit of his B-17 Flying Fortress. Image stamped on reverse: 'Photographed by US Army Air Air Forces.' [caption], 'US Official Phot No. USB 230. (WA) Distributed by the Ministry of Information.' [caption] 'USAA(BRI)CCC:TYPE.' [written annotation] Printed caption on reverse: 'LEADER OF THE US BOMBING ATTACK ON WILHELMSHAVEN. Photo shows:- Col. Frank A. Armstrong of Asheville N.C. who led the bombing attack on Wilhelmshaven- the first American air a

Frank Alton Armstrong

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 97th Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: O-17459
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant General
  • Role/Job: Pilot / Commanding Officer
Brigadier-General Haywood S. Hansell (right) and Colonel Curtis E. LeMay (left) with a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Dry Martini and the Cocktail Kids the 4th" of the 305th Bomb Group, 13 May 1943. Official caption on image: "71088 A.C." Printed caption on reverse: '71088 USAF - Brig. General Haywood S. Hansell and Colonel Curtis E. LeMay pose beside the Boeing B-17 "Dry Martini 4th, The Cocktail Kids" on 13 May 1943. 304th[sic] Bomb Group based in England. U.S. Air Force Photo.'

Haywood Shepherd Hansell

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 1st Combat Bomb Wing Headquarters (Eighth Air Force)
  • Service Numbers: O-17468
  • Highest Rank: Major General
  • Role/Job: Commander

Newton Longfellow

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: VIII Bomber Command 1st Combat Bomb Wing
  • Service Numbers: O-10995
  • Highest Rank: Brigadier General
  • Role/Job: Commanding General, 8th Air Force Bomber Command

William M Gross

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Brigadier General

Woodrow W Dunlop

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 1st Bomb Division 381st Bomb Group Headquarters (381st Bomb Group)
  • Service Numbers: O-20814
  • Role/Job: Commander

Claude E Duncan

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 1st Combat Bomb Wing
  • Service Numbers: O-10717
  • Highest Rank: Brigadier General
  • Role/Job: Commander

Laurence S Kuter

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 1st Combat Bomb Wing
  • Service Numbers: O-16777
  • Highest Rank: General
  • Role/Job: Commander

Connections

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Brampton Grange 19 August 1942

Based

Alconbury 26 June 1945 - 26 August 1945

Based

Bassingbourn

Encompassing

People

Newton Longfellow

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: VIII Bomber Command 1st Combat Bomb Wing
  • Service Numbers: O-10995
  • Highest Rank: Brigadier General
  • Role/Job: Commanding General, 8th Air Force Bomber Command

Michel Francis Schexnayder

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 1st Air Division 1st Combat Bomb Wing 91st Bomb Group 401st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 38-501082
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Gunner, Ball Turret
Two Intelligence Officers - Major John B. Wright, Group Intelligence Officer of New York and Major Ralph Oliver, Operations Officer of Palo Alto, California, both on the left - of the 306th Bomb Group interrogate a bomber crew, sat atop bombs, after a mission. The five bomb crew are Lieutenant Frank Yaussi of Glendale, California; Lieutenant R.J. Salitrink of Alhambra, California; Staff Sergeant Donald Tunstall of Darlington, South Carolina; Staff Sergeant Raymond R. Erikson of Chicago; and Staff Sergeant

John B Wright

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 1st Bomb Division 1st Combat Bomb Wing 306th Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: O-902737
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Intelligence Officer

Aircraft

Revisions

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Air Force Combat Units of World War II

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)

1st Combat Bomb Wing: Gallery (18 items)

Object number: UPL 41038 - Crew of the Torchy Tess

Object number: UPL 41077 - 44-6115 30 November 1944 accident overview

Object number: UPL 41078 - 44-6115 30 November 1944 accident pilots statement

Object number: UPL 41079 - 44-6115 30 November 1944 accident report

Object number: UPL 41080 - 44-6115 30 November 1944 accident left side

Object number: UPL 41081 - 44-6115 30 November 1944 tail