A B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-78439) of the 484th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force after a forced landing in Dubendorf, Switzerland. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Dubendorf 3-8-1944.'
B-24G-16-NT #42-78439
484th Bomb Group - 825th Bomb Squadron
Interned in Switzerland 3 August 1944
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A B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-78439) of the 484th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force after a forced landing in Dubendorf, Switzerland. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Dubendorf 3-8-1944.'
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Group
The 484th Bombardment Group (Heavy) was constituted on 14 September 1943 as a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombardment group and activated on 20 September at Harvard Army Air Field, Nebraska. Its original squadrons were the newly activated 824th,...
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Squadron
Established in late 1943 as a B-24 Liberator heavy bomb squadron; trained under Second Air Force. Deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) in April 1944, being assigned to Fifteenth Air Force in Southern Italy.
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The Fifteenth Air Force was one of two Strategic Air forces in Europe, along with the Eighth Air Force.
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