3rd Air Division
Division
In December 1944, the 3rd Bomb Division was redesginated the 3rd Air Division.
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Division
In December 1944, the 3rd Bomb Division was redesginated the 3rd Air Division.
Division
The 3rd Bomb Division was Constituted in August 1943. In December 1944, the Division was redesginated the 3rd Air Division.
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The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran...
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The 452nd Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Deopham Green, Norfolk, from January 1944. The air crews hit strategic sites in Germany but also supported the movement of ground forces across Europe after D-Day. On 6 June 1944 itself, the Group...
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The 96th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses to targets across occupied Europe from May 1943 to April 1945.
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Military | Captain | Bombsight Engineer
Served from 12/12/42 to 6/22/45
Silver Star; Bronze Service Star & other related ribbons
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner/Engineer | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 11 April 1944 in B-17 #4297129. His B-17 was shot down at Stutebuell, 3 kms north west of Kappeln, near Schleswig, near the German/Denmark border at 2.15pm.
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Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 96th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed ner Parchim in B-17 'Green Weenie' #43-38644 on 5 Dec 44
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
POW crashed near Parchim on 5 Dec 44 in B-17 'Green Weenie' #4338644
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
POW crashed near Parchim in B-17 'Green Weenie' #4338644 on 5 Dec 44
Military | Colonel | Fighter Pilot | 339th Fighter Group
John B Henry served as a pilot with the 339th Fighter Group. He flew P-51 'San Antone Rose'. Completed tour of duty April 11, 1945.
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Military | Flight Officer | Bombardier | 96th Bomb Group
F/O James (Jim) N. Hentges (USAAF) WWII Veteran and POW.
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Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Co-Pilot | 482nd Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 3 September 1944 in AC #42-38119. Crashed off Channel Islands Missing Air Crew Report #8609. Hit by Flak over Guernsey Island, #2 engine flames, Lost altitude, #2 engine fell, #3 prop feathered. Ditched with no explosion. No...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 96th Bomb Group
POW crashed on 5 Dec 44 near Parchim in B-17 'Green Weenie' #4338644
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered 27 December 1943 - Denver
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 8/2/44; Gr Island 19/2/44; Presque Is 11/3/44; Assigned 728th BS / 452nd BG Deopham Green ( T ) 13/3/44; battle damaged Chemnitz, Ger 6/2/45 with Carl Tyner, Co-pilot: John Stellitans, Navigator: John Woodford, togg-Sgt Hurbert...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 9/2/44; Kearney 27/2/44; Grenier 13/3/44; Assigned 729th BS / 452nd BG ( H ) RAF Deopham Green 16/3/44; Missing in Action Brux 12/5/44 with Walt Naylor, Navigator: Austin Casselberry, Bombardier: Mike Veselich, Radio Operator:...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Accepted: 2 May 1944
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 10/5/44; Hunter 21/5/44; Grenier 31/5/44; Assigned 413BS/96BG [MZ-J] Snetterton 3/6/44; Aborted mission due to #1 engine failure, Hamm 7/1/45 with Peder Lansen, crash landed base (pilot error); Salvaged. FEARLESS FOSDICK.
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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) |