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

Boyd Edward Mertens

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: 33898290
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Gunner

Charles British Molina

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18051254
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

Aaron Franklin Moses

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14031789
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Flight engineer / Top turret
Man with the rank of Colonel wearing WWII era Air Force uniform shaking hands with man wearing a similar uniform but with the rank of staff sergeant. Two other uniformed men are in the background

Albert H Oser

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11045730
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Charles L Porterfield

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant

Aircraft

42-41004

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - The Urgin Virgin
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron
B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-50468) nicknamed "Sleeping Dynamite" of the 93rd Bomb Group flies over countryside with a formation of fellow Liberators. Handwritten caption on reverse: '11/11/44 from A/C 617- 93BG? 446BG had 93 left lead & PFF.'

42-50468

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Sleeping Dynamite
  • Unit: 448th Bomb Group 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron 713th Bomb Squadron

42-50505

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
The wreck of a B-24 Liberator of the 93rd Bomb Group that crashed on take off near Aldeburgh, 19 December 1944. Image via Glenn Tessmer, 93rd Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '19/12/44 Aldeburgh, Norfolk, crash on t/o.' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Crash site. Taken about 1 hour after crash. Mission was then scrubbed. Just off end of south runway. Lead aircraft 93BG at Hardwick, Eng. Probably Dec 15-23, 1944. Note weather! The exact date of the crash can be verified in 2nd A.D/ news letters. I can

42-50597

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Beaver's Baby
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron

42-50628

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • 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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