John R Hardy

Military

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Units served with

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

Aircraft

43-38005

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron

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

Revisions

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Added an association to “Sudbury Airfied” listed A/C description section.

Added an association to the A/C #43-38005 listed in the A/C description section.

 

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Added Role/Job per info in the A/C "Description" section. 

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Added a "O-" to the S/N to aid clarity & consistency.

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486th roster / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia