784th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
media-6466.jpeg UPL 6466 B-24M-10-FO 44-50699 Parson's Chariot
466th BG - 784th BS
Code: T9-P

Attlebridge Arsenal - Brassfield & Wassom

Object Number - UPL 6466 - B-24M-10-FO 44-50699 Parson's Chariot 466th BG - 784th BS Code: T9-P

Commanding Officers

Roger C Hamel

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O 394127
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Squadron Commander - Pilot

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Attlebridge

People

Andrew J Geletka

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-723055
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Alvin R Gerik

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 787th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Benjamin Glass

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-712555
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Charles Greene

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Bernard Hochheiser

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32014067
  • Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
  • Role/Job: Gunner

Aircraft

42-22508

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 495th Fighter Training Group 552nd Fighter Training Squadron 784th Bomb Squadron

42-50336

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Pale Ale
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 786th Bomb Squadron

42-50465

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Damifino
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 785th Bomb Squadron
A crashed B-24 Liberator (T9-Z, serial number 42-50488) nicknamed "Polaris II" of the 466th Bomb Group. The propellor of the aircraft lies a short distance away from the wing. First handwritten caption on reverse: '2/1/45 B-24 250488, 466.' Second handwritten caption on reverse: '466 BG Attlebridge, Norfolk PFF A/C repaired and used by 785 BS on 189 mission 25/2/45.'

42-50488

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Polaris II
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 785th Bomb Squadron
media-16636.pdf (4.95 MB) Document 16636 "The Mishap of Crew 92".
The detailed account of a mission flown by 467th Bomb Group, 791st Bomb Squadron on 18 March 1945, to Berlin, in B-24 42-50599.

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42-50599

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 467th Bomb Group 791st Bomb Squadron

Revisions

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466th BG Historian

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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)

784th Bomb Squadron: Gallery (289 items)

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Object number: UPL 16146 - LT Herschel F. Stripe Navigator - Crew #419/639...

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