Glatton

Airfield
The mission board of the 457th Bomb Group. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).' media-380708.jpg FRE 1902 The status board of the 457th Bomb Group at Glatton, after the end of combat operations May 1945.

Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).' Roger Freeman Collection

Associated aircraft based on serial numbers depicted in image

Object Number - FRE 1902 - The status board of the 457th Bomb Group at Glatton, after the end of combat operations May 1945. Official caption printed on image:...

Glatton, which lay mostly in the parish of Conington, was built by the 809th Engineer Battalion (Aviation) of the U.S. Army in the last months of 1942. Unusually, the base's three runways surrounded Rose Court Farm, which remained a working farm despite its proximity to the take-offs and landings of four-engined B-17 Flying Fortresses. The 457th Bomb Group lost 83 aircraft in action. The Group has a memorial to the men who died serving from Glatton air base in the Conington church graveyard.

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People

Arthur H Lindskoog

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 748th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-817715
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Alphus O Maddox

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 750th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34705128
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Black and white posed headshot of man wearing a uniform of a jacket, shirt, tie and hat. There are silver wings and medal ribbons on the upper left-side of the jacket, and a WWII-era Air-Force silver officer insignia badge on the center of hat. There is an aviation insignia pin and on the jacket lapel, and a single bar on the shoulder lapel. Subject is looking right in lens and is smiling

Albert Martin

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Major

Alexander P McDermott

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12064088
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Nose Gunner

Austin F Moore

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 748th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Aircraft

42-31542

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Bunky
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group 92nd Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron 748th Bomb Squadron

42-31545

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Bad Time Inc.
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron

42-31548

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Shu Shu Baby
  • Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 325th Bomb Squadron

42-31551

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Elizabeth Ann
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 750th Bomb Squadron

42-31552

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: My Buddy
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 748th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

Date
ContributorLucy May
Changes
Sources

Connected aircraft records that have 'Glatton' in their biography fields.

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Roger Freeman, Airfields of the Eighth Then And Now (London, 1978)

Glatton: Gallery (94 items)

Object number: UPL 31888 - Photographs commemorating the service of the 457th...

Object number: UPL 31889 - Photographs commemorating the service of the 457th...

Object number: UPL 31890 - Memorial to the 457th BG(H) squadrons, on the side...

Object number: UPL 31891 - Memorial to 457th BG(H) inside All Saint's church...

Object number: UPL 31892 - Memorial to the 457th Bombardment Group (Heavy) in...

Object number: UPL 32481 - First Lieutenant Clement H. Marsden and his crew...

Object number: UPL 32501 - Charles Johnston. Photo taken at Glatton probably...

Object number: UPL 35013 - S/Sgt. Peter G. Stern, Ridgewood, NY, 1943. Later...

Object number: UPL 36168 - B-17G-70-BO #43-37782 "Lady Margaret/Lady...

Object number: UPL 36176 - The burning remains of B-17G-80-VE, a brand new...

Object number: UPL 41623 - B-17G 42-32101 "El Lobo II" (F) of the 457th BG...

Object number: UPL 45491 - John outside the mess hall in Glatton