527th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
The insignia of the 527th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group. media-395069.jpg FRE 5126 The insignia of the 527th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group. Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 5126 - The insignia of the 527th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group.

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Kimbolton

People

Aristide A Albert

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Major Alex B. Andrews, an 8th Air Force HQ special observer, in the cockpit of a damaged B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Lil Satan" of the 379th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '379 BG. 25/6/44, 245. Alex B. Andrews, B/Gen USAF (ret.), Box 2627, Raleigh NC, USA.'

Alexander Boyd Andrews

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-900076
  • Highest Rank: General
  • Role/Job: Observer

Arden P Bailey

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Arthur C Ballmeyer

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Anthony Becko

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Aircraft

42-107014

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Lucy
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
A bomber crew and ground crew of the 379th Bomb Group with their B-17 Flying Fortress (FR-G, serial number 42-107146) nicknamed "Mairzy Doats" March 1944. Image via Edmund H Lutz, 379th Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: 'B-17G "Mairzy Doats" air crew and ground crew chief 2102146 FR-G March 1944.'

42-107146

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Mairzy Doats
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron

42-29624

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Pappy
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 379th Bomb Group 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron 359th Bomb Squadron 527th Bomb Squadron

42-29694

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Southern Belle
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 92nd Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron 527th Bomb Squadron

42-29796

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

Revisions

Date28 Jan 2018 19:53:17
ContributorTennyBelle
ChangesChanges to nicknames and aircraft types
Sources

8th AF archives

Date27 Feb 2015 15:07:55
Contributorrossingtonj
ChangesChanges to type
Sources

Type added

Date27 Sep 2014 18:42:50
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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