578th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
Airmen of the 578th Bomb Squadron, 392nd Bomb Group with their B-24 Liberator nicknamed "Rat Poison". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'GC:? A/C 560. 578BS.' media-414179.jpg FRE 8002 Airmen of the 578th Bomb Squadron, 392nd Bomb Group with their B-24 Liberator nicknamed "Rat Poison". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'GC:? A/C 560. 578BS.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 8002 - Airmen of the 578th Bomb Squadron, 392nd Bomb Group with their B-24 Liberator nicknamed "Rat Poison". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'GC:? A/C 560....

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Wendling

People

Anthony A Borkowski

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 578th Bomb Squadron

Allen C Byers

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 578th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Albert H Carson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 578th Bomb Squadron

Anthony F Cicora

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 578th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Anthony Cocozella

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 576th Bomb Squadron 578th Bomb Squadron

Aircraft

41-51121

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Niagara Special
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 578th Bomb Squadron 857th Bomb Squadron

42-100100

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Double Trouble
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 578th Bomb Squadron
Corporal Hazel Bliss of the Women's Army Corps with a bomber crew of the 392nd Bomb Group and a B-24 Liberator (serial number 44-50505) nicknamed "Pallas Athene- The GI Jane". Image stamped on reverse: 'Planet News.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 12 Feb 1944.' [stamp] and '304565.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: '"GI JANE" LIBERATOR NAMBED BY WAC. Photo shows: 'Standing with some of the crew of the Liberator "GI JANE", Cpl Hazel Bliss, WAC, of Portland, Oregon, gives the "OK" sign after namin

42-100187

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Pallas Athene
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 578th Bomb Squadron

42-109896

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Gypsy Queen
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 453rd Bomb Group 578th Bomb Squadron 733rd Bomb Squadron

42-110105

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 578th Bomb Squadron

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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)

578th Bomb Squadron: Gallery (23 items)

Object number: UPL 38724 - B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-50466) nicknamed...

Object number: UPL 38725 - B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-50466) nicknamed...

Object number: UPL 40702 - Photo from My Combat Diary by Walt Cranson (2000)...

Object number: UPL 51444 - Sgt Eugene M Gallup, 578BS, 392BG