450th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
Personnel of the 322nd Bomb Group with a B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-17934) nicknamed "Pappy's Pram". Image stamped on reverse: 'Reveiwed and passed [illegible] 1943.' [stamp] Handwritten caption on reverse: 'PN-Q 322.' media-379976.jpg FRE 1182 Personnel of the 322nd Bomb Group with a B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-17934) nicknamed "Pappy's Pram". Image stamped on reverse: 'Reviewed and passed [illegible] 1943.' [stamp] Handwritten caption on reverse: 'PN-Q 322.'

From left to right: Lt. James Hinkle (VA), Lt. Wilbur DeGroff (WI), Sgt. Frank Udovich (WI), Sgt. Charles A. Smith (TX), and Sgt. Robert Hammerberg (IL). Roger Freeman Collection

Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 1182 - Personnel of the 322nd Bomb Group with a B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-17934) nicknamed "Pappy's Pram". Image stamped on reverse: 'Reviewed and...

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Unit stations

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Andrews Field

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-663498
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Flight Officer
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32340160
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-730922
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator; Bombardier

Aircraft

Corporal Drosey S. Richards, Corporal John Berta and Technical Sergeant Howard W. McGowen, of the 322nd Bomb Group with a B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-31777) nicknamed "Zombie III". Handwritten beneath the image are the names of the men- which left to right read: 'Richards, Berta, McGowen.' First handwritten caption on reverse: 'Public relations photo. To Linda Lou, with love, Daddy. Aug 1944.' Second handwritten caption on reverse: 'Howard W McGowen Rt 1 Argos, Ind. 46501.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Nicknames: Zombie III
  • Unit: 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Unit: 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Nicknames: Bag of Bolts
  • Unit: 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron
Airmen of the 322nd Bomb Group admire the nose art of a B-26 Marauder nicknamed "Mild and Bitter". Handwritten caption on reverse: '322BG.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Nicknames: Mild and Bitter
  • Unit: 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron 452nd Bomb Squadron
Ground personnel of the 322nd Bomb Group load bombs into a B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-31847) nicknamed "Jolly Roger". Image stamped on reverse: 'Keystone Press.' [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 28 Apr 1944.' [stamp] and '317866.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: '"Jolly Roger" Prepares for Action. Here's the "Jolly Roger", a Marauder of the US Air Force in Britain taking on her cargo of bombs which will go down a French marshalling yeard in about an hours time. She is one of many which will
  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Nicknames: Jolly Roger
  • Unit: 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

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ContributorMarauder1954
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450th Bomb Squadron Newsletter May 1983

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ContributorMarauder1954
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45oth Bomb Squadron Newsletter

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Contributorrossingtonj
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Type added.

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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 / 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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