858th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
media-7414.jpeg UPL 7414 de Havilland DH98 Mosquito TA614 of the 801st-492nd Bombardment Group "The Carpetbaggers". The 8th Air Force "controlled" the bomb group that "served" OSS to accomplish its missions. Probably taken at their base AAF-179 - Harrington, England. This is the only all-black Mosquito at Harrington and used for flying training purposes ONLY . OSS records indicate TA614 NEVER flew a single Joan-Eleanor Mission for wireless transmissions from OSS field agents in enemy territory. It may have had "Patty" on the Port nose fuselage, and late April 1945,had the tail section painted crimson red.

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Object Number - UPL 7414 - de Havilland DH98 Mosquito TA614 of the 801st-492nd Bombardment Group "The Carpetbaggers". The 8th Air Force "controlled" the bomb group that...

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

North Pickenham

People

Charles C Horton

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 858th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Charles R Huckleberry

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 801st Bomb Group 858th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-939805, 66859, 15364029
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Charles R Joeokel

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 858th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator Gunner

Corvin L Lanning

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 801st Bomb Group 36th Bomb Squadron 856th Bomb Squadron 858th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37535498
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Claude McClure

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 858th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Aircraft

44-40086

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Laura Jo
  • Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 858th Bomb Squadron 856th Bomb Squadron
A Swedish soldier guards the nose of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 44-40103) nicknamed "Say When" of the 492nd Bomb Group that has landed near Malmö, Sweden. First handwritten caption on reverse: '440103, Say When, 20/6/44.' Second handwritten caption on reverse: 'Nose gunner pinned in and believed dead. Was very much alive and bitter cold.'

44-40103

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Say When
  • Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 858th Bomb Squadron 859th Bomb Squadron
Nine men in Air Force uniform posed in front of a Air Force bomber plane. Four men standing in rear and five men kneeling in front

44-40109

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Night Knight
  • Unit: 389th Bomb Group 566th Bomb Squadron 492nd Bomb Group 858th Bomb Squadron 856th Bomb Squadron

44-40115

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Militant Mistress
  • Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 858th Bomb Squadron
Sweet and Lowdown with crew @ 1944

44-40125

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Herk's Jerks, Sweet and Lowdown
  • Unit: 389th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 567th Bomb Squadron 857th Bomb Squadron 858th Bomb Squadron 856th 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)

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