848th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Object Number - FRE 6859 - Personnel of the 490th Bomb Group enjoy coffee besides a Jeep. Image by Captain Arnold Delmonico, photographic officer 490th Bomb Group.
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Unit stations
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 848th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 848th Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Aerial Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 848th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16003661
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Airplane Armorer-Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 848th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-832078
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 94th Bomb Group 410th Bomb Squadron 848th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: The Jinx
- Unit: 449th Bomb Group 490th Bomb Group Base Air Depot 2 848th Bomb Squadron 719th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Mairzy Doats
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 848th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Pensy-belle
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 848th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 848th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 848th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
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)
