Hardwick

Airfield
media-13223.jpeg UPL 13223 Hardwick Airfield Memorial.

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Object Number - UPL 13223 - Hardwick Airfield Memorial.

Planned as an RAF bomber airfield, Hardwick was used first by the 310th Bomb Group, equipped with B-25 Mitchells. B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group moved in briefly in March 1943, then returned in June 1943 remaining until the end of the war and flying over 330 missions. Hardwick became a Bomber Command airfield in 1945, but it remained inactive and closed in 1962.

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People

Charles K Gordoni

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13124793
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Carl J Gusikowski

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Benjamin Parton Hall

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron 330th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14031995
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: A/C Mech

Bernard Heinsler

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron 329th Bomb Squadron
  • Role/Job: Gunner

Adrien Henry Hubert

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 36516935
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Aircraft

41-24298

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - Queenie
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron

41-28590

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron

41-28626

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Thunderbird
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron

41-29116

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron

42-100294

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Victory Belle
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron

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Sources

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

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Object number: UPL 14977 - A 93rd Bomb Group's crew in front of the B-24D...

Object number: UPL 15005 - B-24 Liberator #42-40610 'Satan's Sister' 409th BS...

Object number: UPL 15006 - B-24 Liberator #42-40610 'Satan's Sister' 409th BS...

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