Military
Lt Col Curtis Mozley crew, 334BS, 95BG Rear L-R: Curtis Mozley, Lyle Wykert, Kenneth Allen, John Conway. Front L-R: Joe Perdeck, William Evans, Thomas Cassidy, Robert Johnson, Jack Edwards.
Assigned to 334BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. 16 x combat missions. Injured on Frankfurt mission. Flew with 'Mozley's Mob' 9-Mar-45 on Mission to Frankfurt, Germany in Aircraft 44-8640 'Section 8' Wounded in Action (WIA)
Awards: AM (OLC), PH, WWII Victory, EAME (1 x Battle Star).
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Assigned to 334BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. 33 x combat missions. He was an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and command pilot for 28 years.
Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), WWII Victory, EAME (4 x Battle Stars).
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 7/3/44; Hunter 15/3/44; Grenier 5/4/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-F] Horham 10/4/44; 412BS [QW-F]; with G.L.Ferguson force landed RAF Woodbridge 16/8/44; with M.R. Scott force landed Framlingham AFB 24/12/44; 109m, Returned to the USA...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 20/3/44; Kearney 2/4/44; Grenier 21/4/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-B] Horham 22/4/44 STAND BY; 335BS [OE-B]; with W.C. Shaw force landed Thorpe Abbotts afb 16/12/44; 87m, battle damaged Leipzig 6/4/45 with Bob Davis, Co-pilot: Larry...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 20/7/44; Hunter 2/8/44; Kearney 20/9/44; Grenier 9/8/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-K] Horham 12/8/44; with J.H. Corbin force landed Framlingham AFB 25/12/44; 89m, Returned to the USA Bradley 21/6/45; Ypsilanti 23/6/45; 4168 Base Unit,...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Hunter 23/12/44; Dow Fd 3/1/45; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-L] Horham 7/1/45; with K.S. Knowlton force landed RAF Manston, Sfk 3/3/45; 51m, Returned to the USA Bradley 21/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 25/6/45; Reconstruction Finance...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Hunter 14/11/44; Dow Field 3/12/44; Assigned 388BG Knettishall 4/12/44; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-D] Horham 5/12/44; after 58 missions was Missing in Action Operation Chowhound (6th such mission) 7/5/44 with Lionel Sceurman, Navigator:...
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....
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| Based | Horham | January 1945 – 9 March 1945 |
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Assigned to 334BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 05 August 2021 19:42:37 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, service number, biography, awards, events, person associations, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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| 27 September 2014 18:15:24 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / T.A. Cassidy |
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