Allan Bryson
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 453rd Bomb Group
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Military
Robert Atkins served as a tail gunner with the 733rd Bomb Squadron of the 453rd Bomb Group, flying missions out of Old Buckenham, England.
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 453rd Bomb Group
Military | Lieutenant | Bombardier | 453rd Bomb Group
Military | Lieutenant | Navigator | 453rd Bomb Group
Military | Sergeant | Nose Gunner | 453rd Bomb Group
Military | Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 453rd Bomb Group
Military | Sergeant | Radio Operator | 453rd Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant | Flight Engineer | 453rd Bomb Group
Maxey Spencer, of Kinmundy, Illinois, enlisted in the Army Air Corps on October 1, 1941, reporting to Camp Grant, near Rockford, Illinois. He was sent to Old Buckenham Air Base in England, flying 35 missions in B-24 Liberators from September 1944...
Military | Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 453rd Bomb Group
Military | Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 453rd Bomb Group
Group
As well as strategic bombardment missions, the 453rd Bomb Group also ferried cargo on two occasions. They hauled petrol, blankets, and rations to France in September 1944 and dropped ammunition, food and medical supplies near Wesel during the airborne...
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
Ex-392nd Bomb Group - first trace with 453rd BG: 14 October 1944.
Transferred to 44th BG after 11 April 1945 but flew no missions with that Group.
25 September 1944
27 September 1944
This mission is conducted by three elements against industrial targets, an oil refinery and an aircraft factory in Germany. A total of 1,192 heavy bombers are dispatched from 1st, 2nd and 3rd Bomb Divisions:
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28 September 1944
2 October 1944
3 October 1944
5 October 1944
7 October 1944
12 October 1944
Black Week
14 October 1944
Black Week
17 October 1944
Military site : airfield
Allocated to the Eighth Air Force as a bomber base in 1942, Old Buckenham was built during 1942-43 with three concrete runways, 50 loop hardstandings and two dispersed T2 hangars. The station was the exclusive home for the 453rd Bomb Group, equipped...
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / The Liberator Men of Old Buc |