2nd Air Division
Division
In December 1944, the 2nd Bomb Division was redesginated the 2nd Air Division.
Wing
Division
In December 1944, the 2nd Bomb Division was redesginated the 2nd Air Division.
Division
The groups under the command of the 2nd Bomb Wing came under the command of the 2nd Bomb Division in August 1943. In December 1944, the Division was redesginated the 2nd Air Division.
Group
The 446th Bomb Group, who came to be known as "the Bungay Buckaroos" after the name of their Suffolk base, flew B-24 Liberators on strategic, support and interdictory missions over Europe. The Group led the Eighth Air Force and 2nd Bomb Division on the...
Group
The 448th Bomb Group was a B-24 Liberator Group that flew out of Seething, Norfolk. The Group flew their first mission on the 22nd December 1943 and over the next eighteen months the air crews flew 262 missions over occupied Europe. These bombing...
Group
The 489th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators out of Halesworth, Suffolk, for several months from May 1944 until later in the year. The Group flew tactical missions in support of ground forces in northern France. It was in this tactical role that the crews...
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...
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Military | Sergeant | Waist Gunner. Bryson's crew | 448th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 448th Bomb Group
Military | Colonel | Commanding Officer 93rd BG, Air Executive, Deputy Wing Commander | 381st Bomb Group
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.
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator. B24. 2nd Air Division, 448th Bomb Group, 714 Bomb Squadron, 29 complete missions | 446th Bomb Group
After marriage in 1941, Harry enlisted for the draft, and in his own words " being patriotic or probably knowing the regular draft would get me sooner or later and I would be drafted into the regular Army, I decided I would enlist in the Army Air Corps...
Military | Second Lieutenant | Copilot | 448th Bomb Group
Military | Sergeant | Waist Gunner and Chaff Thrower | 448th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 448th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant | Engineer | 448th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 448th Bomb Group
Military | Tail Gunner
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Date | Contributor | Update |
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27 September 2014 18:42:44 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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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) |