VIII Air Force Service Command
Command
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 3/2/43; Salina 17/2/43; Rapid City 20/2/43; Kearney 12/3/43; Morrison 28/3/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-F] 29/3/43; 4m transferred 401BS/91BG [LL-A1 then M] Bassingbourn 13/6/43; +24m AFSC 5/4/44; Returned to the USA Lockbourn 4/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 4/9/45. RAMBLIN' WRECK.
Command
Group
The 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated at Harding Field, Louisiana on 15-April-1942 and went to MacDill Field, Florida for the first phase of training from 16-May-1942 to 25-June-1942. The Group was then assigned to 2nd Air Force at Walla...
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...
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Squadron
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Military | Master Sergeant | Ball Turret and Right Waist Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
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Military site : airfield
Now home to a museum all about the aifield and its USAAF residents (http://www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk/) , Bassingbourn opened in 1938 as part of the RAF's pre-war expansion programme. The RAF continued to use it until late in 1942 when its long...
Event | Location | Date |
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Returned Stateside | Lockbourne, OH 43137, USA | 4 August 1945 |
Returned to the USA Lockbourn 4/8/45. 24+ mission veteran. |
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17 May 2022 18:33:11 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number |
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AAM DB Entry Correction. |
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17 May 2022 18:32:12 | Al_Skiff | Changes to unit associations |
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AAM DB Entry Correction. |
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22 July 2021 22:03:00 | acbernstein1 | Changes to nicknames |
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14 December 2015 14:11:29 | Al_Skiff | Changes to unit associations |
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AAM DB Entry Correction. |
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08 December 2015 11:35:32 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, manufacturer, nicknames, markings, description, events, unit associations and place associations |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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27 September 2014 18:40:23 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log |