98th Combat Bomb Wing | American Air Museum in Britain

BGEN Harold Loring Mace Commander Officer 416th BG Commander Officer 98th Combat Bomb Wing 9th Air Force

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US Air Force Combat Units of World War II Description

Activated as 3d Bomb Wing on 7 Jun 1942. Assigned to Eighth AF... Redesignated 98th Combat Bombardment Wing (Medium) in Nov 1943. Assigned to Ninth AF and continued combat operations until Apr 1945. Redesignated 98th Bombardment Wing (Medium) in Jun 1945. Inactivated in Europe on 27 Nov 1945

Commanding officers

Carl Storrie

Military | Colonel | Commanding Officer 387th Bomb Group | 387th Bomb Group

Structure

Part of

IX Air Force Service Command

Command
The IX Air Force Service Command performed two functions: supplying the Ninth Air Force, and maintenance and major repair of airplanes and other equipment. ...
IX Bomber Command

Command
9th Bombardment Division

Division

Encompassing

304th Service Group

Group
387th Bomb Group

Group
The 387th Bomb Group flew just under thirty missions with the Eighth Air Force before being transferred to the Ninth Air Force in October 1943. The Group remained at Chipping Ongar, Essex after being reassigned and continued to hit targets in France....
394th Bomb Group

Group
397th Bomb Group

Group
53rd Service Group

Group
70th Service Group

Group
19th Station Complement Squadron

Squadron
21st Weather Squadron

Squadron
25th Mobile Reclamation and Repair Squadron

Squadron
311th Station Complement Squadron

Squadron

Previously was

3rd Bomb Wing

Wing
One of four original bombardment wings of the Eighth Air Force, the 3rd Bomb Wing comprised four groups of B-26 Marauder medium bombers by September 1943, as part of VIII Air Support Command. ...

Became

Not yet known

Stations

Station	Location	Date
Based	Earls Colne	November 1943 – July 1944
Redesignated		November 1943
Based	Dover Army Air Base	18 July 1944 – 19 August 1944
Based	Lessay	23 August 1944
Based	Chartres	24 September 1944
Based	Laon/Athies	2 October 1944
Based	Venlo	3 May 1945
Based

Connections

People

Harold Mace

Military | Brigadier General | Pilot - Group Commander - Wing Commander | 416th Bomb Group
Harold Loring Mace was born at Lake Helen, Florida, on October 10, 1907. He was accepted as a Flying Cadet on October 23, 1928, and on October 12, 1929, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Corps Reserve of the Army. He was commissioned a...

Aircraft

N6410

Oxford
Airspeed Oxford Mk II N6410, assigned to 98th Combat Bomb Wing, 9AF USAAF. Crashed due to poor weather, hit trees 5 miles W of Winchester, pilot 1st Lt Theodore Ralph Lindholm Jnr,aged 23, from Chicago, KIA. 31-Jul-44.Lt Lindholm O-732558 joined USAAF...

Citations

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Date	Contributor	Update
04 September 2019 15:20:04	Emily	Changes to type, motto, insignia, us air force combat units of world war ii description, commanding officers associations and stations
Sources
Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:42:44	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
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)