Columbus E Ford Jr

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A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.

486th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

43-37942

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Flippy, The Blue Fairy
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron

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Added associations to the 832BS listed in the A/C #43-37942 description section.

 

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486th BG / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia