525th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
The insignia of the 525th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group. media-395067.jpg FRE 5124 The insignia of the 525th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group. Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 5124 - The insignia of the 525th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group.

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Kimbolton

People

Andrew J Oman

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 20367119
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Billie E Potter

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Gunner

Benjamin Radensky

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19065065
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Armand John Ramacitti

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16035502 / O-759660
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Albert A Roberts

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Aircraft

B-17 Flying Fortresses nicknamed "London Avenger", nicknamed "Bermondsley Battler", nicknamed "Rotherhithe's Revenge" and nicknamed "Bermondsley" of the 379th Bomb Group, 15 February 1944. Passed for publication 16 Feb 1944. Censor no: 305411. Handwritten caption on reverse: '16/2/44.' Printed caption on reverse: ' CHRISTENS U.S. FORTRESS BOMBER. Feb. 16th, 1944. As an appreciation of £800,000 raised during Bermondsey's Wings for Victory Week., the people of Bermondsey christened a U.S. Fortress bomber "

42-31228

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: London Avenger
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron

42-31592

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: No Body's Baby
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron

42-37728

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron

42-37784

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The Old Fox
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron

42-37805

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Carol Dawn
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron 527th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

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8th AF archives

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Captain Agnew

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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)

525th Bomb Squadron: Gallery (81 items)

Object number: UPL 6760 - A bomber crew of the 379th Bomb Group with their B...

Object number: UPL 6762 - A ground crewman of the 379th Bomb Group watches a...

Object number: UPL 6763 - A crashed B-17 Flying Fortress (FR-C, serial...

Object number: UPL 6764 - A B-17 Flying Fortress (FR-C, serial number 42...

Object number: UPL 6765 - Ground personnel of the 379th Bomb Group attend to...

Object number: UPL 6766 - Lieutenant Edmund H Lutz and his bomber crew of...