Ninth Air Force
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Commanding Officers
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: VIII Fighter Command 2nd Air Division
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant General
- Role/Job: Commanding General, 8th Air Force Fighter Command
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (9th Air Force) US Army Middle East Air Force
- Service Numbers: O-3132
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant General
- Role/Job: Commanding General
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: Ninth Air Force
- Highest Rank: General
- Role/Job: Commanding General 9th Air Force
Connections
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Previously was
- Type Category: Combat organisation
Encompassing
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Transport
- Unit Hierarchy: Platoon
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Air base
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Battalion
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Other
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: Ninth Air Force
- Service Numbers: O-678663
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: Ninth Air Force
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: Ninth Air Force
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: Ninth Air Force
- Service Numbers: 38186096
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: Ninth Air Force
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer / Top Turret
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Shanghi Lil
- Unit: 98th Bomb Group 345th Bomb Squadron Ninth Air Force
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Chief
- Unit: Ninth Air Force
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Boiler Maker II
- Unit: Ninth Air Force
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Fertile Myrtle
- Unit: Ninth Air Force
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Tagalong
- Unit: Ninth Air Force
Related videos and documents
- Media Type: Video
- Object Number: UPL 16649
- Media Type: Video
- Object Number: UPL 16654
- Media Type: Video
- Object Number: UPL 37389
- Description: Video of Mild & Bitter's 100th mission
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 21241
- Description: 386th BG, 554th BS, B-26 crew of Lt. Donald B. Wren, "CLOUD HOPPER II" aircraft number 4131763 The attached JPG file of the B-26 Wren Crew Photo was...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 37642
- Description: "The D-Day Pilot and Flight Nurse" by Stephen Pedone, Lt. Col., USAF, Ret, Naples, Florida.
Revisions
Regular removal of erroneous people and aircraft associations to record- individual people and aircraft were never directly assigned to the USAAF's Combat Air Forces.
Regular removal of erroneous people and aircraft associations to record- individual people and aircraft were never directly assigned to the USAAF's Combat Air Forces.
Regular removal of erroneous people and aircraft associations to record- individual people and aircraft were never directly assigned to the USAAF's Combat Air Forces.
Regular removal of erroneous people and aircraft associations to record- individual people and aircraft were never directly assigned to the USAAF's Combat Air Forces.
Regular removal of erroneous people and aircraft associations made to record- individual people and aircraft were never directly assigned to the USAAF's Combat Air Forces.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia