360th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
media-14815.jpeg UPL 14815 360th Bombardment Squadron "Smokey Stover" (leather patch)
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Unit stations

Station Location Date

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Molesworth

People

Andrew Carl Peterson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16048671
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Alfred K Peterson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 1635202
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant

Abraham J Rasch

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Albert Rosenberg

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13112148
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Aerial Gunner

Aloysius I Sapak

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-823703
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Aircraft

42-5260

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Yardbird II
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
The control tower at Thurleigh air base. A B-17 Flying Fortress (WW-G, serial number 42-5729 later nicknamed "Buccaneer") of the 306th Bomb Group is visible in the background. Image via Mike Bowyer A veteran has written on the reverse: 'From Mike Bowyer 3/72 from collection of wing/Co. 76 sqd. Halifax at Home. RAF station WWII.' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'WW:G 25729, GY:X.'

42-5262

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron

42-5382

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The Witche's Tit
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron

42-5390

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The Avenger
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron

42-5393

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Just for Laughs : Little Woman : Thumper Again
  • Unit: 2nd Strategic Air Depot 100th Bomb Group 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)

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