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

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

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

Charles J Klutcharch

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

Charles W Lundsberg

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Carl L Malanowski

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

Charles A Manuel

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Anthony M Marianro

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

Aircraft

42-5886 The jolly roger

42-5886

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The Jolly Roger
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron

42-5895

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The Souse Familly
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
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.'

42-97079

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

42-97211

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

42-97530

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

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Virginia Wise, eldest child of Lester Allen Wise

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error thought I was tagging the plane

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Official 385th records

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Type added.

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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)

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