571st Bomb Squadron
Squadron
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 5156 - The insignia of the 571st Bomb Squadron, 390th Bomb Group.
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Unit stations
Station | Location | Date |
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Based |
Framlingham |
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Ground Echelon
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Ground Echelon
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Ground Echelon
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Odd Ball aka Double In Brass
- Unit: 571st Bomb Squadron 390th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron 95th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron

- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Preferred Risk, Good Old Yank
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron

- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: - Heavenly Cent - Boston Blackie - Miss Boston
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron

- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: North Star
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
Mission

- Date: 18 April 1945

- Date: 15 April 1945
Revisions
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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)