44-8007 Screaming Eagle

media-29998.jpeg UPL 29998 Photo over England, late summer 1944, taken by Clifford M Hunt Clifford M Hunt

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Object Number - UPL 29998 - Photo over England, late summer 1944, taken by Clifford M Hunt

Delivered to Dallas 11/5/44; Langley 26/6/44; Grenier 11/7/44; Assigned to the 545th BS, 384th BG [JD-Z] at Station 106, Grafton Underwood on 3/8/44; transferred to the 305th BG at Chelveston on 9/5/45; SCREAMIN' EAGLE.

Assigned to 69 missions, receiving combat credit for 50 missions.

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  • Date: 5 January 1945
  • Date: 3 January 1945
The wreck of a B-24 Liberator of the 93rd Bomb Group that crashed on take off near Aldeburgh, 19 December 1944. Image via Glenn Tessmer, 93rd Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '19/12/44 Aldeburgh, Norfolk, crash on t/o.' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Crash site. Taken about 1 hour after crash. Mission was then scrubbed. Just off end of south runway. Lead aircraft 93BG at Hardwick, Eng. Probably Dec 15-23, 1944. Note weather! The exact date of the crash can be verified in 2nd A.D/ news letters. I can
  • Date: 19 December 1944
Eleven men in Air Force uniform posed in two rows in front of a military airplane.  Six men standing to the rear and five men sitting in front.  Some of the men are wearing cold-weather flying gear.
  • Date: 18 December 1944

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