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Verbal L Holcomb

Military

media-57433.jpeg UPL 57433 VL Holcomb

Personal records/photos of VL Holcomb

Object Number - UPL 57433 - VL Holcomb

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Units served with

The insignia of the 34th Bomb Group

34th Bomb Group

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

The insignia of the 391st Bomb Squadron, 34th Bomb Group.

391st Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

Clarence W Arand

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
Nationality: American
Unit: 34th Bomb Group 391st Bomb Squadron

Ambers Everett Hanson

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 34th Bomb Group 391st Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 14182496
Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
Role/Job: Radio Operator

James Lowry Hibbett

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 34th Bomb Group 391st Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 34738610
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Steiner Cleveland Huber

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 34th Bomb Group 391st Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 20347965
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Raymond H Luscher

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
Nationality: American
Unit: 34th Bomb Group 391st Bomb Squadron

Aircraft

Nose art of a 34th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortess (serial number 44-8271) nicknamed "Butch".

44-8271

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Butch
Unit: 34th Bomb Group 391st Bomb Squadron

Missions

8th Air Force 977 Operation Chowhound

Date: 3 May 1945
Official Description:

8th Air Force 975 Operation Chowhound

Date: 2 May 1945
Official Description:

Ground crew of the 25th Bomb Group spray foam onto the crashed Mosquito (serial number NS748) at Watton, 19 April 1945. Official caption printed on image: '(G-AD-[illegible])(19-4-45)(MOS.748CRASH)(REST.)'

8th Air Force 961

Date: 19 April 1945

8th Air Force 951

Date: 15 April 1945

8th Air Force 941

Date: 11 April 1945

Places

B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 34th Bomb Group at Mendelsham. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Mendelsham Red Sqdn, 18 BS 5/45.'

Mendlesham

Site type: Airfield
Known as: RAF Mendlesham

Revisions

Date25 May 2022 18:36:37

ContributorStephanie Holcomb

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added Eighth Air Force

Date25 May 2022 05:12:33

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Date25 May 2022 05:10:20

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Date25 May 2022 05:09:38

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Date25 May 2022 05:08:28

ContributorStephanie Holcomb

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Personal records/photos of VL Holcomb

Date25 May 2022 05:02:39

ContributorStephanie Holcomb

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Personal Records/photos of VL Holcomb

Date25 May 2022 04:37:03

ContributorStephanie Holcomb

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https://www.fold3.com/record/84846997/verbal-l-holcomb-wwii-army-enlist…
https://valortovictory.tripod.com/

Date25 May 2022 04:29:45

ContributorStephanie Holcomb

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Discharge records and personal records of VL Holcomb

Date27 Sep 2014 18:26:22

ContributorAAM

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1996 34th BG Roster / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

Verbal L Holcomb: Gallery (13 items)

Object number: UPL 57420 - (l to r) J. Hibbet, F. McGowan (back), A.Hanson...

Object number: UPL 57421 - Battlin' Butch in heavy flak. Date unknown.

Object number: UPL 57422 - VL Holcomb

Object number: UPL 57423 - VL Holcomb in position.

Object number: UPL 57424 - VL Holcomb

Object number: UPL 57425 - Back captioned "This is after a rough mission"

Object number: UPL 57426 -

Object number: UPL 57427 - VL Holcomb

Object number: UPL 57428 - The Arand crew w/B-24 before Battlin' Butch

Object number: UPL 57429 - VL Holcomb

Object number: UPL 57430 - VL Holcomb

Object number: UPL 57431 - VL Holcomb