555th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
media-7494.jpeg UPL 7494 'Sparta' (coded YA-D), B-26B-25-MA Marauder, 41-31794, 555th BS, 386th BG, 9th AF, Shot down by AAA on July 12, 1944. MACR 7045

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Object Number - UPL 7494 - 'Sparta' (coded YA-D), B-26B-25-MA Marauder, 41-31794, 555th BS, 386th BG, 9th AF, Shot down by AAA on July 12, 1944. MACR 7045

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Unit stations

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Great Dunmow

People

John H Canty

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 386th Bomb Group 555th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11072858
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant

Allen J Crosswell

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 386th Bomb Group 555th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Engineer

George R Fitch

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 386th Bomb Group 555th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Engineer

William Flinn

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 386th Bomb Group 555th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-791684
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Daniel J Graff

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 386th Bomb Group 555th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 36018473
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Gunner

Aircraft

41-31634

  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Nicknames: Hell's Hurricane
  • Unit: 386th Bomb Group 555th Bomb Squadron
A bomber crew of the 386th Bomb Group with their B-26 Marauder nicknamed "Crescendo". Handwritten caption on reverse: '386BG. 552nd/555th BS.' Printed caption on reverse: 'A/C Name: Crescendo. Left to right from back row: Bomb: Theodore Lehman. Pilot: Charles V. Thornton. C/P: Eugene F. Anderson. R/G: William B. Harris. E/G: Norman L. Bell. A/G: Name unknown at this time.'

41-31644

  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Nicknames: Crescendo
  • Unit: 386th Bomb Group 552nd Bomb Squadron 555th Bomb Squadron

41-31794

  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Nicknames: Sparta
  • Unit: 386th Bomb Group 555th Bomb Squadron
Ground personnel of the 386th Bomb Group remove snow from the runway to allow a B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-31812) to take off. Image via Jeremy C Scutts. Printed caption on reverse: '70045 AC- GIs are still removing snow from the runway as the pilot of a Martin B-26 "Marauder" "Revs up" its engines at the 386th Bomb Group base in Beaumont, France, 14 January 1945. US Air Force Photo, 1361st Photographic Squadron, Aerospace Audio-Visual Service (MAC).'

41-31812

  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Nicknames: Mr Five by Five?
  • Unit: 386th Bomb Group 555th Bomb Squadron
A bomber crew of the 386th Bomb Group with their B-26 Marauder (YA-B, serial number 41-31852) nicknamed "Man O War". Image stamped on reverse: 'Not to be published.' [stamp], 'Ministry of Information 19 Aug 1943.' [stamp] nand '279551.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'AT THE US MARAUDERS BASE. The B-26 Marauders, American super medium bombers are operating now from bases in Britain. This series of pictures shows various scenes at the airfield where the ground crew and the fliers work together to

41-31852

  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Nicknames: Man O War
  • Unit: 386th Bomb Group 555th Bomb Squadron

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)

555th Bomb Squadron: Gallery (20 items)

Object number: UPL 33562 - "Bombs, dropped by a preceding formation of Martin...

Object number: UPL 34229 - ""Marauders supported Allied ground forces in the...

Object number: UPL 34230 - Formation of Martin B-26Bs, taken 26th June 1944...

Object number: UPL 34258 - "Behind them a smoking gun position that has felt...

Object number: UPL 41140 - 1st Lt William L Leirevaag, 555BS, 386BG, 9AF.

Object number: UPL 7494 - 'Sparta' (coded YA-D), B-26B-25-MA Marauder, 41...

Object number: UPL 7527 - Martin B-26C-15-MO Marauder s/n 41-34946 "Yankee...