Twelfth Air Force insignia WWII
A-26 Invaders, including (serial number 43-22575) of the 47th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force lined up in Italy.
A P-61 Black Widow (serial number 42-39533) nickinamed "Markey" of the 417th Night Fighter Squadron, 12th Air Force. Image via R Woolner. Written on slide casing: '415 NFS?? Germany '45.
1Lt. Gerald I. Rounds of the 97th Fighter Squadron, 82nd Fighter Group, 12th Air Force with his P-38 Lightning nicknamed "Chicken Dit".
Colonel Duane L. Kime, commander of the 3rd Photographic Reconnaissance Group, 12th Air Force in the cockpit of his F-5E Lightning. Kime led the 3rd PRG from September 1944 to May 1945. Written on slide casing: 'Col DL Kline.'
B-26 Marauder (serial number 42-107783) nicknamed "Thumper II" of the 320th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force in flight.
A B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-34891) nicknamed "Missouri Mule II" of the 320th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force in flight.
A B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-34891) nicknamed "Missouri Mule II" of the 320th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force in flight.
A B-26 Marauder (serial number 42-96322) of the 320th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force in flight.
A B-25 Mitchell (7C) of the 340th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force takes off.
The 12th Air Force was established in the USA during the Second World War to provide the Army Air Force component of Operation Torch (the invasion of French North Africa) in 1942. The Air Force initially moved to England for training before participating in the invasion of North Africa. It then engaged in tactical operations in the Medieterranean Theatre of Operations for the remainder of the war.
Constituted as Twelfth AF on 20 Aug 1942 and activated the same day. Moved to England, Aug-Sep 1942, and then on to North Africa for the invasion of Algeria and French Morocco in Nov 1942. Operated in the Mediterranean theater until the end of the war, serving with Northwest African Air Forces from Feb to Dec 1943, and afterward with Mediterranean Allied Air Forces. Inactivated in Italy on 31 Aug 1945.
Military | General | Commanding General, 8th Air Force
A few weeks after Pearl Harbor, in January 1942, General Spaatz was assigned as chief of the Army Air Force Combat Command at Washington and promoted to the temporary rank of major general. In May 1942, Spaatz was designated commander of the Eighth Air...
Military | General | Commanding General
Became Commanding General of 12th AF September 1942; Commanding General of Northwest African Strategic Air Force March 1943; assumed command of 15th AF November 1943; Commanding General of 8th Air Force 6 January 1944 to 9 May 1945. Medal Of Honor for...
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The 417th Night Fighter Squadron was activated 20 February 1943. After organisation and training at Kissimmee Air Base near Orlando, Florida, the 417th departed for oversees duty on 5 May 1943 on the Queen Elizabeth, arriving in Scotland six days...
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| Established | Bolling Field | 20 August 1942 |
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Aerial Gunner | 47th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Gunner/Armament Inspector/Armament Cheif | 47th Bomb Group
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Pilot - Squadron Commander | 47th Bomb Group
Military | Captain | Bombardier/Navigator | 47th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 47th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | 47th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 47th Bomb Group
Military | Flight Officer | Pilot | 47th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Communications Chief | 47th Bomb Group
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 97th Bomb Group
Assigned to 414BS, 97BG, 12AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Foggia mission in B-17 41-24342 'Stinky' 7-Sep-43; Downed by flak, A/C exploded over Foggia, Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 642
Awards: PH.
B-17 Flying Fortress
Assigned 92BG Bovingdon 8/42; 414BS/97BG Polebrook 24/8/42; transferred Maison Blanche, Alg. 20/11/42; Missing in Action Foggia 7/9/43 with Bill Bispham, Pilot: Everett Blogg, Navigator: Glenn J. Rhodes Jr., Co-pilot: Dan Grover, Flight engineer/top...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Assigned 92BG Bangor 13/7/42; transferred 414BS/97BG Polebrook 6/42; Maison Blanche, Alg. 13/11/42; Tafaraoui, Alg. 22/11/42; Biskra, Alg. 25/12/42; on Tunis mission was rammed by Me109G 1/2/43 almost slicing rear fuselage and tail of plane off; made...
P-47 Thunderbolt
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered W Palm Beach 8/1/43; Assigned 414BS/97BG Biskra 28/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Missing in Action Naples 1/8/43 with Bob Rast, Alvarado, Ponemone, Bigelow, Dibble, Shea, Anderson, Nichols, Smith, Mathews; flak hit knocked off wing, crashed...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 13/5/43; Gore 26/5/43; Smoky Hill 29/5/43; Morrison 8/6/43; Assigned 419BS/301BG St Donat 6/7/43; Oudna 6/8/43; transferred 49BS/2BG Massicault 7/10/43; 9m 419BS/301BG Oudna 14/11/43; 44m 414BS/97BG Amendola 10/5/44; Missing in...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 4/6/43; Presque Is 31/7/43; Assigned 96BS/2BG Massicault 8/8/43; transferred 353BS/301BG Cerignola; 89m 97BG Amendola as weather ship in summer of ‘44; depot 11/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA)...
Mosquito
Assigned to 416th Fighter Squadron, 12th AF. Posted Missing - Lt Eldon W Blake (pilot) and 2nd Lt Max W Galowich (nav.) - Killed in Action (KIA). 29-Mar-45. MACR 13453
Mosquito
Assigned to 416th Fighter Squadron, 12th AF. Posted missing near San Benedetto, Italy, having set out from Pontedera Airfield its base. 22-Apr-45. 2 x POW MACR 14064
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Spitfire
Supermarine Spitfire ER130 Mk Vb, Built at Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory.
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C-47 Skytrain
30652 (MSN 13803) to USAAF 23Sep43. Operated with 37th TCS, 316th TCG. Operated with 12th AF in Mediterranean before joining the 9th AF in UK. 37th Troop Carrier Squadron [W7*D], 316th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Cottesmore (Station 489)....
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| 02 February 2020 13:56:09 | phil marchese | Changes to aircraft types |
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| 09 January 2019 09:27:02 | Emily | Created entry with type, category, name, insignia, us air force combat units of world war ii description, description, commanding officers associations and media associations |
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