41-29517 Pisces

media-31384.jpeg UPL 31384 B-24H 41-29517 'Pisces'. Originally with 834BS, 486BG, 8AF.

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Object Number - UPL 31384 - B-24H 41-29517 'Pisces'. Originally with 834BS, 486BG, 8AF.

Assignments: Originally 8th AF, 486th BG. Transferred on 1 Jul 44 to 834th BS (H8 H). Transferred to 15th AF, 461st BG, 766th BS as #51. (Also reported in 465th BG). Condemned 19 Jun 45.

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Units served with

A B-24 Liberator of the 461st Bomb Group, 15th Air Force drops supplies over a Prisoner of War camp in Austria, May 1945. Handwritten caption on reverse: '9 May 1945, Last 'combat' mission of 461st BG to British POW camp near Villack, Austria. #33 flown by Lt John Stegman- 765th BS.'

461st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.

486th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Edward S Boyle

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 490th Bomb Group 834th Bomb Squadron 850th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17053033
  • Role/Job: Airplane Armorer-Gunner

Phillip S Brinkman

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 834th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37187863
  • Highest Rank: Corporal
  • Role/Job: Draftsman

William Joseph Cusack

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 834th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-801436
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Places

Aerial photograph of Sudbury airfield looking south west, the bomb dump is to the upper right of the airfield, 29 February 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC188. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).

Sudbury

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Acton

Torretta

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Cerignola #3

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Written off

19 June 1945

Manufactured

Willow Run Airport, 801 Willow Run Airport, Ypsilanti, MI 48198, USA Built at Consolidated.

Assigned

Sudbury CO10, UK Assigned to 834BS, 486BG, 8AF USAAF.

Assigned

90040 Torretta PA, Italy Transferred to 766BS, 461BG, 15AF USAAF.

Revisions

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Roger Freeman Photo.

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