511th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
The insignia of the 511th Bomb Squadron, 351st Bomb Group. media-395064.jpg FRE 5121 The insignia of the 511th Bomb Squadron, 351st Bomb Group. Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 5121 - The insignia of the 511th Bomb Squadron, 351st Bomb Group.

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Polebrook

People

Arturo C Chacon

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18056373
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Alfred B Culver

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant

Albert R Custer

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35410746
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Alfred L Dearborn

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Alton W Dreyer

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Aircraft

42-30790

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Cue Ball
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron

42-31162

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron

42-31179

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Stinky Weather
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron
A damaged B-17 Flying Fortress (42-3136) nicknamed "No Balls At All" of the 351st Bomb Group gets a new nose section from another damaged Fortress. Official caption printed on image: '(GE-16-1-351)(14-6-43)(A/C 23136)(Nose Section Replaced).' Handwritten caption on reverse: '21/5/'43.'

42-3136

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: No Ball at All
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron

42-3150

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Foul Ball
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

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Dave618

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John Bull

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ContributorLucy May
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Added where the unit was based. 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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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

511th Bomb Squadron: Gallery (42 items)

Object number: UPL 38026 - Item found at the crash site of B-17 43-38650...

Object number: UPL 38027 - Item found at the crash site of B-17 43-38650...

Object number: UPL 38028 - Item found at the crash site of B-17 43-38650...

Object number: UPL 38029 - Item found at the crash site of B-17 43-38650...

Object number: UPL 48128 - B-17 42-39839 351st Bomb Group, battle damaged...

Object number: UPL 48129 - B-17 42-39839 351st Bomb Group, battle damaged...

Object number: UPL 48130 - B-17 42-39839 351st Bomb Group, battle damaged...

Object number: UPL 48131 - B-17 42-39839 351st Bomb Group, battle damaged...

Object number: UPL 48132 - B-17 42-39839 351st Bomb Group, battle damaged...

Object number: UPL 48133 - SSgt Charles A Foubert, Ball Turret Gunner on B17...

Object number: UPL 48908 - Douglas B-17G-DL, 42-38005, crash site after lost...

Object number: UPL 49640 - Stephen R. Callahan