827th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
media-45457.jpeg UPL 45457 B-24L-15-FO #44-49924 Code: #503
484th Bomb Group - 827th Bomb Squadron - 15th AF
The man in the center is Joseph Dickmann, Ground Crew Chief 466th Bomb Group collection

Object Number - UPL 45457 - B-24L-15-FO #44-49924 Code: #503 484th Bomb Group - 827th Bomb Squadron - 15th AF The man in the center is Joseph Dickmann, Ground Crew Chief

Activated as the 41st Bombardment Squadron in January 1941 at Langley Field, Virginia,[1] one of the original squadrons of the 13th Bombardment Group.[2]



After the Attack on Pearl Harbor the squadron performed antisubmarine patrols off the Atlantic coast. The 41st was redesignated as the 5th Antisubmarine Squadron in late 1942.[1]



After the Navy assumed full responsibility for the antisubmarine mission in August 1943, the squadron was transferred to Second Air Force, where it was redesignated the 827th Bombardment Squadron[1] and formed the cadre for a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombardment group. After training, the squadron deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) in April 1944, where it became part of Fifteenth Air Force in Southern Italy.[1]



Despite its Pathfinder designation, the squadron did not perform pathfinder missions. Instead it engaged in very long range strategic bombardment missions against enemy strategic targets in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Balkans until April 1945. The 827th bombed aircraft factories, assembly plants, oil refineries, storage areas, marshaling yards, airdromes, and other objectives until the German Capitulation in May 1945.



The squadron became part of Air Transport Command in May 1945. It used B-24s as transports flying personnel from locations in France and Italy to Casablanca, French Morocco. It also engaged in transport operations from North Africa to Azores or Dakar in French West Africa where personnel eventually were transported to Florida. The squadron inactivated in French Morocco during July 1945.[1]

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Aircraft

The nose art of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-52648) nicknamed "Sweet Revenge" of the 484th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force.
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Sweet Revenge
  • Unit: 484th Bomb Group 827th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Booby Trap
  • Unit: 484th Bomb Group 827th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 484th Bomb Group 827th Bomb Squadron

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