548th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
The insignia of the 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Group. Featuring Bugs Bunny. media-395081.jpg FRE 5138 The insignia of the 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Group. Featuring Bugs Bunny. Roger Freeman Collection

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Object Number - FRE 5138 - The insignia of the 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Group. Featuring Bugs Bunny.

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Unit stations

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Great Ashfield

People

Arlis Anderson

Arlis King Anderson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18038978 / O-664864
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Albert E Audette

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Anthony T Barckett

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Alexander Behr

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: PH/Passenger
Chester Beres

Chester Valentine Beres

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12140033
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Aircraft

42-102679

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Mississippi Miss
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
Bomber plane parked on muddy ground. There are two men standing on the wings and several ladders underneath plane. Men in uniform on all sides of the plane and three men in uniform standing in the foreground looking into a hole in the ground

42-107035

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Reluctant Lady
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron

42-30204

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Gremlin's Buggy
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron

42-30250

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Yank
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
Lady Susie II

42-30257

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Lady Susie II*
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron

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UPL 60151

  • Media Type: Document
  • Collection Name: Unit histories
  • Object Number: UPL 60151
  • Description: 385th Bomb Group Unit History, complete copy. Resembling a college yearbook, unit histories were an unofficial – and often tongue-in-cheek – record of...

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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)

548th Bomb Squadron: Gallery (50 items)

The insignia of the 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Group. Featuring Bugs Bunny.

Object number: FRE 5138 - The insignia of the 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th...

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-97079) nicknamed "Dozy Doats" of the 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group drops over France. Handwritten caption on reverse: '14/7/44. 'Dozy Doats', 548 BS.' Printed caption on reverse: '55276 AC - Vital supplies are parachuted to waiting Maquis, as an 8th Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress reaches its drop zone over the French countryside. U.S. Air Force Photo.'

Object number: FRE 7745 - A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-97079)...

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30336) of the 385th Bomb Group that has crash landed after overshooting the runway. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Overshot landing. R. Bowers.'

Object number: FRE 7753 - A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30336...

Object number: UPL 22815 - Melvin Arnal Mercer

Object number: UPL 32423 - Ed Kostick, radio operator, front row, 2nd from...

Object number: UPL 33492 - Edward Kostick - 1st photo in uniform.

Object number: UPL 33495 - Re; guns on the B-17

Object number: UPL 33587 - Major Wayne G. Zeigler, Pilot, 385th Bomb Group

Object number: UPL 33588 - Major Wayne G. Zeigler and his crew, 385th BG...

Object number: UPL 33693 - Lucky Bastard Club

Object number: UPL 34906 - Ssgt. Joe Schreppel Tail gunner/ Jolley Roger 42...

Object number: UPL 43967 - Donald Graham photo taken March 1, 1946 just...