773rd Bomb Squadron

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media-14821.jpeg UPL 14821 463rd Bombardment Group "Swoose" , 773rd Bombardment Squadron (leather patches)
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Object Number - UPL 14821 - 463rd Bombardment Group "Swoose" , 773rd Bombardment Squadron (leather patches) See my Facebook page for info "WW2 Leather Sqd/Group Patches"

Established in mid-1943 as a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombardment squadron; assigned to Second Air Force for training. Attached in late 1943 and early 1944 to Air University Army Air Force School of Applied Tactics. Deployed to Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) in February 1944, squadron taking the South Atlantic Transport Route though the Caribbean and South America; transiting the Atlantic Ocean via Brazil and Dakar, French West Africa, being assigned to Fifteenth Air Force in March 1944 at several airfields in Southern Italy.











773d Bombardment Squadron Douglas Long Beach B-17G-50-DL Fortress 44-6261. Aircraft Lost on mission to Vienna, Austria, 13 October 1944.

Engaged in long-range strategic bombardment of enemy military, industrial and transport targets, including oil refineries and production oilfields in Italy; France; Southern Germany; Austria and the Balkans. Continued strategic bombardment until German capitulation in May 1945. Demobilized in place in Italy during the summer of 1945; inactivated in September 1945

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 463rd Bomb Group 773rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37582702
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Ball-Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 463rd Bomb Group 773rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34391232
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 463rd Bomb Group 773rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34355687
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant (RAF)
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 463rd Bomb Group 773rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32714833
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 463rd Bomb Group 773rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35896241
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant (RAF)
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Ragged but Right
  • Unit: 463rd Bomb Group 773rd Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 463rd Bomb Group 773rd Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 463rd Bomb Group 773rd Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Betty Lou
  • Unit: 463rd Bomb Group 773rd Bomb Squadron

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