409th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
The insignia of the 409th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group. media-395027.jpg FRE 5084 The insignia of the 409th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group. Roger Freeman Collection

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Object Number - FRE 5084 - The insignia of the 409th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group.

Commanding Officers

William B Musselwhite

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 97th Bomb Group 342nd Bomb Squadron 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34278598 on enlisting
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Connections

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Alconbury 7 September 1942

Based

Hardwick 6 December 1942 - 15 June 1945

Based

Tafaraoui 7 December 1942 - 15 December 1942

Based

RAF Gambut 16 December 1942 - 25 February 1943

Based

Oudna 18 September 1943 - 3 October 1943

People

Albert B Austin

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

Byard F Baker

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron 329th Bomb Squadron 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 295598
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Bombardier, Co-Pilot, Engineer, Navigator, Pilot, Radio Operator

Arthur Batson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14041220
  • Highest Rank: Master Sergeant

Ben A Braden

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Charles A Brann

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Aircraft

41-23682

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - The Blasted Event
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron 409th Bomb Squadron 858th Bomb Squadron 492nd Bomb Group
First Lieutenant Llewellyn L. Brown and First Lieutenant Robert J. Quinlivan admire the nose art of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-23724) nicknamed "Flying Cock" at Alconbury. Image stamped on reverse: '231046' [Censor no].' passed for publication 6 Nov 1942' [stamp]. Printed caption on reverse: 'PHOTO SHOWS: Pilot and co-Pilot of a "Liberator" on which is painted their mascot the "Flying Cock"', photographed at a U.S. Army Air Corps station somewhere in England. They are 1st Lieut. L.L. Brown (left),

41-23724

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - Flying Cock - Doodlebug
  • Unit: 376th Bomb Group 449th Bomb Group 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron

41-23732

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

41-23740

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Red Ass
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
Lietuenant W.E Keefer, Lieutenant Phil Ziegler, Lieutenant Howard Young and Lieutenant Joe Walker, of the 93rd Bomb Group stand with their B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-23742) nicknamed "Liberty Lad" at Alconbury. In a duplicate version of this image a censor has obscured the insignia on the airmen's jackets and the structure visible beneath the aircraft to the far left of the image. Image stamped on reverse: 'Ministry of Information 10 Oct 1942.'[stamp] and '226088'[Censor no]. Printed caption on reve

41-23742

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

Mission

548

  • Date: 13 August 1944

Revisions

Date17 Feb 2022 09:18:01
ContributorEmily
ChangesChanges to insignia, us air force combat units of world war ii description, citations and stations
Sources

Combat Squadrons of the Air Force

Date26 Mar 2015 03:12:44
ContributorL2M2
ChangesChanges to commanding officers associations
Sources

William B Musselwhite Commanding Officer 10/15/42 thru 3/13/42.
http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10618

Date13 Mar 2015 16:23:07
Contributorrossingtonj
ChangesChanges to type
Sources

Type added.

Date27 Sep 2014 18:42:49
ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
Sources

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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