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

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 751st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 748th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
Black and white portrait of man, posed at angle wearing a uniform consisting of a jacket, shirt, tie and hat.  Hat is tilted on his head.  There are silver wings on the upper left-side of the jacket, and a WWII-era Air-Force silver officer insignia badge on the center of hat.  Only the upper body is visible
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 750th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14121372
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 750th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15170378
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Aerial Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 751st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-747182
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-31613
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Sharon Kay
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 92nd Bomb Group 325th Bomb Squadron 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Snafusk Shamrock, Swedish Shamrock
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 748th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Our Baby
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 748th Bomb Squadron 750th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Skunk Hollow
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 750th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 748th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

Date
ContributorLucy May
Changes
Sources

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Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

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