Bungay
AirfieldIWM, English Heritage Collection
From late November 1943, the three bases of Bungay, Seething and Hardwick were the stations of the 20th Combat Wing of the Eighth Air Force. The base had previously housed individual squadrons of the 310th Bomb Group (Twelfth Air Force) and of the 93rd Bomb Group (its other squadrons operating out of Hardwick) but the 446th was the first full group to be based there. They would stay beyond the end of war in Europe and the crews' commitment to the base came through in their nickname of 'Bungay Buckeroos'.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 707th Bomb Squadron 446th Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: 12209749
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 446th Bomb Group 707th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17155749
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ground crew
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 446th Bomb Group 706th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 446th Bomb Group
- Role/Job: Engineer / Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 446th Bomb Group 706th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Speed / Lil Jo
- Unit: 355th Fighter Group Headquarters (355th Fighter Group)
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Dissapated Duck
- Unit: 446th Bomb Group 707th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Shady sadie
- Unit: 446th Bomb Group 705th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Funny Face
- Unit: 704th Bomb Squadron 706th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Little Rollo
- Unit: 446th Bomb Group 707th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Roger Freeman, Airfields of the Eighth Then And Now (London, 1978)