Military
PFc. Pat(ricia), Lt. Walt Foster, and Pfc. Oscar Loan/Athies Airfield, France 323rd BG 456th BS 16 December 1944
(L - R) PFC. Pat, Lt. Walt Foster, PFC. Burma. Earls Colne, Essex April or May 1944. They're in Site No. 13 on the Earls Colne Site Plan, next to the grouping of huts adjacent to the Brick House Farm. Burma was one of PFC Gin Fizz's puppies.
One of PFC Gin Fizz'a puppies. Pat made the trip form Earls Colne to Lessay to Chartes to Laon and probably a few other stations.
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Bombardier | 323rd Bomb Group
Lt. Walt Foster was a navigator and bombardier from Upstate New York who served with the 456th BS during the Second World War. His first combat mission was flown from Earls Colne Airfield on February 3, 1944 to the Ruisseville "No Balls” secret weapon...
Military | Private First Class | Flight surgeon/Pet | 323rd Bomb Group
Oscar makes a cameo appearance in the 1943 video of a 323rd mission. He's over by the bicycles parked soon the side of the Situation Room, which was across the road and up a little bit from the grouping of officers' quarters at Site No. 13 at Earls...
Group
The 323rd Bombardment Group operated with B-26 Marauders, American medium bombers. They were the first Eighth Air Force Group to fly a medium level bombing mission with this aircraft on 16 July 1943. After flying a total of 33 missions with the Eighth,...
Squadron
Selected Bibliography of Publications:
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Military site : airfield
Earls Colne was built in 1941 as an airfield for No.3 Group, RAF Bomber Command, although never used as such. Assigned to the US Eighth Air Force (as Station 358) in 1942, its 36 hardstands were increased to 50, bringing the airfield up to Air Ministry...
Military site : non-airfield
Marks Hall's estate was requisitioned in 1941 for the construction of Earls Colne airfield (USAAF Station 358).
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