Hardwick
Airfield
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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
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14031925
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-797419
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14160909
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer / Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12032379 and O-660421
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13059258 / O-735939
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Sunday Girl
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Jean Louise
- Unit: 36th Fighter Group 328th Fighter Squadron 352nd Fighter Group 23rd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Lindie (Satan Strikes Back ?)
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Per Diem
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Woolf Pack
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 730th 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).