401st Bomb Group

Group
A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.' media-395370.jpg FRE 6533 A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.' Roger Freeman Collection

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Object Number - FRE 6533 - A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A,...

The 401st Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Deenethorpe, Northamptonshire, from November 1943 to June 1945. Starting their missions at that time meant the focus was very much on the coming invasion attempt of France planned for the following summer. The Group won two Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, awarded to the whole of the 1st Bomb Division, was for an unescorted raid on aircraft factories at Oschersleben on 11 January 1944. The second was awarded to the Group for a raid on Leipzig on 20 February 1944.



For more information about the group, visit http://www.remember-our-heroes.nl/

Commanding Officers

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: US Strategic Air Forces 401st Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: O-21785
  • Highest Rank: Brigadier General
  • Role/Job: Commanding Officer
Hollywood actress Marlene Dietrich with airmen of the 401st Bomb Group after a ride in a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Pakawalup". Printed caption on reverse: 'Marlene Dietrich, long famed for her attractive legs, entertained more than 1,000 officers and enlisted men of the 8th Air Force Base at Hangar no 1 on 29 September 1944, Miss Dietrich and party were picked up from Birmingham in the Boeing B-17 "Pakawalup" piloted by Colonel William T Seawell (2nd left) and Captain Felix Kalinski (left) with Lawr
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-23712
  • Highest Rank: Brigadier General
  • Role/Job: Commanding Officer

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Established

1 April 1943

Based

1 April 1943 - 27 May 1943

Based

Great Falls Army Air Base 1 July 1943 - 18 October 1943

Based

Deenethorpe 3 November 1943 - 20 June 1945

Encompassing

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Toggellier
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant

Aircraft

B-17 Flying Fortresses, including (VK-H, serial number 41-24606) nicknamed "Werewolf", of the 303rd Bomb Group. On reverse: US Army Examiner [Stamp].
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Werewolf
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 401st Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The 401st Hack, Agony Wagon, Gravy Train
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 401st Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group 97th Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Diana Queen Of The Chase
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Down N Go
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Dynamite John
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

Mission

  • Date: 7 October 1944
  • Date: 30 August 1944
  • Date: 26 August 1944
  • Date: 25 August 1944

Related videos and documents

  • Media Type: Video
  • Collection Name: Rob Edwards collection
  • Object Number: UPL 33906
  • Description: Video of the memorials to the service and sacrifice of the USAAF 401st BG(H) based at Deenethorpe, station 128. The video covers two locations: the...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Collection Name: Air Force Historical Research Agency
  • Object Number: Document 30687
  • Description: General Orders #66, 1st Air Division, 3 May 1944
  • Media Type: Document
  • Collection Name: Air Force Historical Research Agency
  • Object Number: Document 30697
  • Description: General Orders #41, 1st Air Division, 3 February 1944
  • Media Type: Document
  • Collection Name: Charles Lewis Collection
  • Object Number: Document 37339
  • Description: Charles M. Lewis's report of Mission : Solingen, Germany Dec 1/2, 1943.
  • Media Type: Document
  • Collection Name: Charles Lewis Collection
  • Object Number: Document 37340
  • Description: 410st Bomb Group - Combat Crew Commendation - Mission 382 31 May 1944
  • Media Type: Document
  • Collection Name: Charles Lewis Collection
  • Object Number: Document 37344
  • Description: Charles M. Lewis's report of Mission : Oschersleben, Germany, January 11 1944
  • Media Type: Document
  • Collection Name: Unit histories
  • Object Number: Document 51137
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group Unit History, complete copy Many of the 8th Air Force Groups produced an unofficial unit history in the months after the war ended...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52909
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 1, 26 Nov 1943, Bremen, Germany. 0908 hours - Twenty aircraft off okay. Four of the briefed crews didn't manage to get...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52910
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 2, 1 Dec 1943, Solingen, Germany. The Group flew the low position in the 1st Combat Wing, and this was the third wing...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52934
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 3, 5 Dec 1943, Paris, France. Aircraft 42-39825 crashed on take-off into the village of Deenethorpe. It was believed a...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52936
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 5, 13 Dec 1943, Kiel, Germany. Eighteen aircraft attacked the primary target, the bombing having been carried out by PFF...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52937
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 6, 20 Dec 1943, Bremen, Germany. Fifteen of the dispatched aircraft hit the primary target, with 14 of the Group's...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52938
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 7, 22 Dec 1943, Osnabruck, Germany. The Group flew the lead box position in the Wing formation. After starting the bomb...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52941
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 8, 24 December 1943, Gorenflos, Germany. For some time, through photographic reconnaisance and reports from the French...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52943
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 9, 30 Dec 1943, Ludwigshaven, Germany. This was the longest mission yet flown by the Group with ten hours engine time...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52944
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 10, 31 Dec 1943, Cognac, France. The primary target (Bordeaux) was obscured by cloud so the Wing Leader (Major Seawell)...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52972
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 11, 4 Jan 1944, Kiel, Germany. The lead aircraft, piloted by Capt. Garland with Major Martin as Group Air Commander...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52974
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 12, 5 Jan 1944, Tours, France. All aircraft returned from mission by 1452 hours. Colonel Rogner expressed his pleasure...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52975
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 13, 7 Jan 1944, Ludwigshaven, Germany. Chemical works of Farbenindustrie. Nineteen aircraft were off by 0900; one later...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52976
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 14, 11 Jan 1944, Oschersleben, Germany. This was one of the greatest air battles of World War II. The Group put up the...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52977
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 15, 14 Jan 1944, Gorenflos, France. The Group's bombing pattern, led by Group Bombardier Captain Julius Pickoff, was...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52978
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 16, 21 Jan 1944, Pas De Calais. 23 operational aircraft were off by 1230. All planes returned safely by 1554 hours....
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52979
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 17, 29 Jan 1944, Frankfurt, Germany. 35 aircraft were airborne by 0849 but five aborted the mission and returned. Air...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52980
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 18, 30 Jan 1944, Brunswick, Germany. All aircraft returned by 1547 except # 856, shot down over the target. Lt. Col...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52981
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 19, 3 Feb 1944, Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Over 1,100 fighters and bombers participated in the attack on the great port and...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52982
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 20, 4 Feb 1944, Frankfurt, Germany. 31 aircraft off on operations by 0901 hours. All but one of the operational aircraft...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 52983
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 21, 5 Feb 1944, Chateauroux, France. The results of bombing Chateauroux Airfield were excellent. Pictures of 401st...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53001
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 23, 11 Feb 1944, Frankfurt, Germany. Captain Donald McCree led the Group to Frankfurt, the site of important aircraft...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53002
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 24, 20 Feb 1944, Leipzig, Germany. All 41 aircraft were airborne by 0955, constituting two complete boxes of 18 aircraft...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53003
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 25, 21 Feb 1944, Lippstadt, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53004
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 26, 22 Feb 1944, Oschersleben, Germany. 32 aircraft were airborne by 0935. 29 operational aircraft had returned by 1755...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53005
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 27, 24 Feb 1944, Schweinfurt, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53016
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 28, 25th Feb 1944, Augsburg, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53028
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 29, 2 Mar 1944, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53029
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 30, 3 Mar 1944, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53030
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 31, 4 Mar 1944, Cologne, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53031
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 32, 6 Mar 1944, Berlin
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53033
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 33, 8 Mar 1944, Berlin, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53036
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 34, 9 Mar 1944, Berlin
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53037
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 35, 11 Mar 1944, Munster, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53039
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 37, 16 Mar 1944, Augsburg, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53040
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 36, 13th Mar 1944, Gorenflos, France
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53044
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 38, 18 Mar 1944, Landsberg, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53046
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 39, 19 Mar 1944, Watten, France
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53048
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 40, 20 Mar 1944, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53050
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 41, 22 Mar 1944, Berlin
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53052
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 42, 23 Mar 1944, Ahlen, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53055
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 43, 24 Mar 1944, Schweinfurt, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53057
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 44, 26th Mar 1944, Watten, France
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53058
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 45, 27 Mar 1944, Tours, France
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53059
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 46, 29 Mar 1944, Brunswick, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53060
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 47, 9 Apr 1944, Marienburg, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53061
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 48, 10 Apr 1944, Brussels, Belgium
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53062
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 49, 11 Apr 1944, Politz, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53063
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 50, 13 Apr 1944, Schweinfurt, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53064
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 51, 18 Apr 1944, Oranienburg
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53066
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 52, 19 Apr 1944, Kassel, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53067
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 53, 20 Apr 1944, Pas De Calais
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53069
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 55, 24 Apr 1944, Erding
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53074
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 56, 25 Apr 1944, Nancy/Essey
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53076
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 57, 26 Apr 1944, Brunswick, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53077
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 58, 27 April 1944, Le Grismont
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53078
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 60, 29 Apr 1944, Berlin
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53080
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 59, 29 Apr 1944, Nancy/Essey
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53081
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 61, 30 Apr 1944, Lyon
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53082
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 62, 1 May 1944, Siracourt, France
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53096
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 63, 4 May 1944, Alkmar
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53097
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 64, 7 May 1944, Berlin
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53098
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 65, 8 May 1944, Berlin
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53099
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 66, 9 May 1944, Luxembourg
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53101
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 67, 11 May 1944, Kons Karthus
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53102
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 68, 12 May 1944, Merseburg, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53107
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 69, 13 May 1944, Stettin, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53109
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 70, 19 May 1944, Kiel, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53110
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 71, 20 May 1944, Villacoublay
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53111
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 72, 22 May 1944, Kiel, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53112
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 73, 23 May 1944, Bayon
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53114
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 74, 24 may 1944, Berlin
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53115
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 75, 25 May 1944, Fecamp/Metz
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53117
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 76, 27 May 1944, Ludwigshaven
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53118
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 77, 28 May 1944, Dessau
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53132
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 78, 29 May 1944, Sorau
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53133
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 79, 30 May 1944, Oschersleben
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53134
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 80, 31 May 1944, Luxeuil
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53138
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No.22, 6 Feb 1944, Caen. Colonel Bowman led the Group on a mission originally scheduled to attack a target at Dijon, France...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53149
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 81, 2 Jun 1944, Equihen
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53150
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 82, 3 Jun 1944, Neufchatel
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53151
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 83, 4 Jun 1944, Massey
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53154
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 84, 6 Jun 1944, Ver-Sur-Mere
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53155
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 86, 7 Jun 1944, Falaise
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53156
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 87, 10 Jun 1944, Gael, France/Caen, France
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53158
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 88, 11 Jun 1944, Bernay/St. Martin
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53174
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 89, 12 Jun 1944, Vitry-en-Artois
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53175
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 90, 14 Jun 1944, Le Bourget. For the 401st Bomb Group, this was the most important mission to date. The Group put up 60...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53399
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 254, 20 Apr 1945, Brandenburg, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53401
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 252, 18 Apr 1945, Traunstein, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53402
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 251, 17 Apr 1945, Dresden, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53403
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 250, 16 Apr 1945, Regensburg, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53481
  • Description: 301st Bomb Group, Mission No. 248, 14 Apr 1945, Royan, France Briefing took place at 0430 hours. While taxying toward the takeoff runway a problem...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53483
  • Description: 301st Bomb Group, Mission No. 247, 11 Apr 1945, Freiham, Germany. Briefing took place at 0500 hours, with Assembly ordered over Buncher Y in France at...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53484
  • Description: 301st Bomb Group, Mission No. 246, 10 Apr 1945, Oranienburg, Germany. On this mission the three squadrons of the 401st made up the 94th Combat Wing "B...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53486
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 245, 9 Apr 1945, Furstenfeldbruck, Germany. Briefing took place at the relatively civilized hour of 0500. However SNAFU...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53488
  • Description: 301st Bomb Group, Mission No. 244, 8 Apr 1945, Halberstadt, Germany. Briefing again took place in the middle of the night--0240 hours. All operational...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53492
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 243, 7 Apr 1945, Luneburg, Germany. Briefing was again held at an early hour--0230 hours. Pilots were briefed for a...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53512
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 242, 5 Apr 1945, Ingolstadt, Germany. Briefing times continued to be scheduled very early-- at 0215 hours this day. With...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53514
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 241, 4 Apr 1945, Unterlüss, Germany. Briefing was again scheduled for the early hour of 0250. All operational aircraft...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53529
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 240, 31 Mar 1945, Weimar, Germany. Briefing took place at the early hour of 0200. The aircraft were each loaded with six...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53530
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 239, 30 Mar 1945, Bremen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0720 hours for this mission. Aircraft were loaded with twelve...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53531
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 238, 28 Mar 1945, Berlin, Germany. Briefing took place at 0400 hours. Aircraft loading was six 500 pound GP's plus four...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53532
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 237, 24 Mar 1945, Twente, Holland. The second briefing of the day, for crews of the 12 ships scheduled to participate...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53558
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 236, 24 Mar 1945, Rheine/Salzbergen, Germany. The Group was briefed at 0300 hours for the first of the day's two...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53559
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 235, 23 Mar 1945, Gladbeck, Germany. Briefing took place at 0615 hours. The Group was informed that the Eighth Air Force...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53562
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 234, 22 Mar 1945, Barmingholten. Briefing took place at 0400 hours, with Lead and Low Squadron ships being loaded with...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53563
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 233, 21 Mar 1945, Hopsten, Germany. Briefing at 0330 hours. The ships of the Lead Squadron were loaded with twelve 500...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53564
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 232, 19 Mar 1945, Plauen, Germany. At briefing, which took place at 0445 hours, the Group was briefed on two alternate...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53565
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 231, 18 Mar 1945, Berlin, Germany. Briefing took place at 0315 hours. The ships were loaded with twelve 100 pound GP's...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53566
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 230, 17 Mar 1945, Molbis, Germany. The Group was briefed at 0400 hours, and all aircraft were airborne by 0824. Flying...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53567
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 229, 15 Mar 1945, Zossen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0636 hours. The ships were loaded with six 500 pound GP's plus...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53597
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 228, 14 Mar 1945, Lohne, Germany. Briefing took place at 0745 hours. All aircraft were loaded with 34 100 pound GP's...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53598
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 227, 12 March 1945, Swinemunde, Germany. Briefing took place at 0440 hours, pilots being briefed for low visibility take...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53600
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 226, 11 Mar 1945, Bremen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0630 hours. Aircraft were loaded with 42 M-47 IB's. All...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53601
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 225, 10 Mar 1945, Hagen, Germany. The Group was briefed at 0615 hours. Aircraft were loaded with thirty-four 100 pound...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53602
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 224, 8 Mar 1945, Essen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0800 hours. The aircraft were loaded with twelve 500 pound GP's...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53603
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 223, 7 Mar 1945, Siegen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0430 hours. The aircraft were loaded with twelve 500 pound GP's...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53618
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 222, 4 Mar 1945, Schwab-Munchen. Breakfast for flight crews was at 0200 hours and briefing at 0300 hours--another long...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53619
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 221, 3 Mar 1945, Chemnitz, Germany.
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53620
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 219, 1 Mar 1945, Heilbronn, Germany. Briefing took place at 0710 hours, and all operational aircraft were airborne by...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53621
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 220, 2 Mar 1945, Chemnitz, Germany. The Group was briefed for a long mission at the early hour of 0300. By 0707 hours...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53661
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 218, 28 Feb 1945, Soest, Germany. The 401st provided the 94th Combat Wing "B" Group on this mission. As the target was...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53662
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 217, 27 Feb 1945, Leipzig, Germany. Briefing took place at 0700 hours, and all operational aircraft were airborne by...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53663
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 216, 26 Feb 1945, Berlin, Germany. Briefing took place at 0500 hours, and by 0841 hours all 20 aircraft were off on the...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53704
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 215, 25 Feb 1945, Munich, Berlin. Briefing took place at 0330 hours. Aircraft loading was six 500 pound RDX's plus 6 M17...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53705
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 213, 23 Feb 1945, Ottingen, Germany. Another early briefing-- at 0345 hours. Aircraft loading was twelve 500 pound G.P...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53706
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 212, 22 Feb 1945, Ludwigslust, Germany. Briefing took place at 0445 hours, and all operational aircraft were off by 0905...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53788
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 211, 21 Feb 1945, Nurnberg, Germany. Group briefing took place at 0345 hours. Pilots were warned of obstructions and...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53791
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 210, 20 Feb 1945, Nurnberg, Germany. Group briefing took place at 0500 hours. Aircraft loading was eighteen 250 pound G...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53792
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 209, 16 Feb 1945, Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The Group was briefed at 0700 hours. Aircraft loading was twelve 500 pound G...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53803
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 208, 15 Feb 1945, Dresden, Germany. The Group was briefed at 0400 hours. Aircraft loading was eighteen 250 pound G.P.'s...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53806
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 207, 14 Feb 1945, Dresden, Germany. Briefing took place at 0400 hours, as the mission was to be a long one. Pilots were...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53807
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 206, 10 Feb 1945, Dulmen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0445 hours. Aircraft loading was six 1,000 pound G.P.'s. and...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53808
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 205, 9 Feb 1945, Lutzkendorf (Primary) Eisenach (T.O.) Germany. The Group was briefed at 0530 hours. Aircraft loading...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53809
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 204, 6 Feb 1945, Giessen (T.O.) Eisfeld (T.O.) Germany. Briefing took place at 0415 hours. Aircraft loading was ten...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53810
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 203, 3 Feb 1945, Berlin, Germany. Briefing took place at 0300 hours. Aircraft loading was ten 500 pound GP's and 2,780...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53811
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 202, 1Feb 1945, Ludwigshaven, Germany. Briefing took place at 0515 hours. Loading was twelve 500 pound GP's and two...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53812
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 201, 29 Jan 1945, Bad Kreuznach, Germany During the night a total of 16 RAF Halifax bombers landed at Deenethorpe and...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53813
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 200, 28 Jan 1945, Cologne, Germany. Briefing took place at 0500 hours, and all operational aircraft were airborne by...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53814
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 199, 22 Jan 1945, Sterkrade, Germany. The Group was briefed at 0630, but starting times were delayed several times and...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53862
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 198, 21 Jan 1945, Aschaffenburg, Germany. Briefing was conducted at the relatively early hour of 0400. Aircraft were...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53865
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 197, 17 Jan 1945, Paderborn, Germany. Group briefing took place at 0600 hours. Aircraft were loaded with six 1,000...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53866
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 196, 14 Jan 1945, Cologne, Germany. Briefing was held at 0600 hours. Twelve of the fifteen 401st aircraft were assigned...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53867
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 195, 13 Jan 1945, Maximiliansau, Germany. Briefing took place at 0530 hours. Loading was six 1,000 pound bombs and 2...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53869
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 194, 10 Jan 1945, Euskirchen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0600 hours. Deenethorpe had been snowed in the previous...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53870
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 193, 7 Jan 1945, Bitburg, Germany. Briefing took place at 0500 hours. By 0921 all aircraft were airborne, although four...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53876
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 192, 6 Jan 1945, Kempernich, Germany. Briefing was at 0430 hours, and all aircraft were airborne by 0913. One ship...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53879
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 191, 5 Jan 1945, Koblenz, Germany. Briefing took place at 0500 hours. All but one aircraft, which had lost hydraulic...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53880
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 190, 3 Jan 1945, Hermulheim, Germany. Briefing took place at 0430 hours, and all 39 aircraft were off by 0822 "Good...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53881
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 189, 1 Jan 1945, Kassel, Germany. Briefing took place at 0450 hours, and by 0834 hours all operational aircraft were...

Revisions

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ContributorWin Bryson
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Unit History: Pictorial Record of the 401st Bomb Group [BlueBook] Edited and compiled under supervision of Capt. Gordon R. Closeway, 401BG Public Relations Officer. pub. (orig.) 1946, Newsfoto Publishing Co., San Angelo, Texas. 300+pp; ill., 7-1/2"w x 10-1/2"h x 1-1/2"t, oversize hard cover, upholstered, History of the 401BG - formation through operations, from 8th USAAF Station 128, Deenethorpe, U.K., and return to U.S. in 1945.

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ContributorPaul Bellamy
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401BG History (401BG Association)

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ContributorPaul Bellamy
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401BG records (401BG Association)

Date
ContributorPaul Bellamy
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401BG History (401BG Association)
1st Air Division records (1AD HQ Historical Society)

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ContributorAAM
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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 / The Mighty Eighth. A History of the Units, Men and Machines of the US 8th Air Force.' by Roger A. Freeman (1989). 'Air Force Combat Units of World War II' compiled by the Department of the US Air Force, edited by Maurice Maurer (1983). / 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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