Arthur Pierce
Military | Colonel | Commander - 466th Bomb Group | 466th Bomb Group
Between 31 March 1942 and 1 February 1943, Pierce was promoted 4 times, from 1LT to full Colonel.
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The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the occasion. The Group flew missions against strategic objectives like U-boat installations in Kiel, ball bearing works in Berlin, aircraft factories in Munich and oil refineries in Hamburg. Remarkably, the 785th Bomb Squadron flew 55 consecutive missions without loss.
Browse 466th Bomb Group photographs and other documents in the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library digital archive here: www.2ndair.org.uk/digitalarchive/Dashboard/Index/45
Military | Colonel | Commander - 466th Bomb Group | 466th Bomb Group
Between 31 March 1942 and 1 February 1943, Pierce was promoted 4 times, from 1LT to full Colonel.
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Military | Colonel | Commander - 466th Bomb Group | 466th Bomb Group
Retired from the USAF as a Major General
http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/106386/major-general-elvin-s-ligon.aspx
Military | Colonel | Commander - 466th Bomb Group | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Colonel | Commander - 466th Bomb Group | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Colonel | Chief of Staff; Commanding Officer | 25th Bomb Group
Cleveland was Chief of Staff of the 325th Wing and assumed command on July 4 1944.
Cleveland was C.O. of the 466th BG: 1 November 1944 - 16 February 1945
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22 March 1944
The German aviation industries at Oraneinburg and Basdorf were the intended primary target for this mission but dense cloud cover prevented the attack on these targets. The secondary target of Berlin, Germany and surrounding Targets of Opportunity (TOs...
23 March 1944
The industrial areas of Brunswick, Munster, Osnabruck, and Achmer, Germany as well as the airfield at Handorf, Germany become the targets for a force of 768 heavy bombers despatched by all three Air Divisions. The bomber gunner claims on German...
24 March 1944
This mission is composed of two elements, one from 1st Air Division and the other from 2nd Air Division. A total of 436 hevay bombers are despatched. The primary target for 1st Air Division is the the ball bearing plants at Schweifurt, Germany. 2nd Air...
27 March 1944
This mission might be likened to a "shotgun blast" as a combined force 714 heavy bombers are despatched form all three Air Divisions to attack 11 different German airfields and air depots in France. Mission summary follows:
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13 April 1944
5 May 1944
28 May 1944
29 May 1944
Mission #2. The target was an aircraft assembly plant. Flak was exceedingly heavy. We were in the air 7-1/2 hours.
3 June 1944
17 June 1944
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Based | Attlebridge | 7 March 1944 – 6 July 1945 |
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Right Waist Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Unknown | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Ball Turret Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
completed 34 missions
Good Conduct/Air Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters/EAME Medal with 4 Bronze Stars
Military | Corporal (5th Grade) | Aircraft Electrician | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Draftsman | 466th Bomb Group
Worked in Group operations as a draftsman. Memorable days -- years -- in England
Good Conduct & 'Mouse Medal'
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Crew?
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Tail Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
January - March 1945. On 23 February 1945, 6th mission, ditched our B-24. 3 of 9 crew members survived. Picked up by air-sea rescue in life raft after 8 hours. Flown to England.
AM/ ETO w/ 3 battle stars/ PH
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 9 May 1944 in B-24 #42-52584 'Worry Bird II', Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 466th Bomb Group
B-24 Liberator
Assigned to 785BS, 466BG, 8AF USAAF. Flew on 466BG's first mission. Failed to Return (FTR)mission to Epinal. A/C seen with one engine feathered and another smoking, radio message received that pilot was heading for Switzerland. Not seen again. 11 x KIA...
B-24 Liberator
Assigned to 785BS, 466BBG, 8AF USAAF. Hit by 20mm flak direct hit taking out the Oxygen, electrical and hydraulic systems and starting a large fire. Went into dive after leaving the target area of Brunswick 8-May-44. S/Sgt's Carlson and Cannon bailed...
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
The B-24H “Gruesome Goose” while on a mission to bomb Mourmelon-Sur-Marne Ammuniton Dump in France ditched over the Channel with the loss of all 10 on board.
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B-24 Liberator
Assigned to 787BS, 466BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Berlin. Forced down, crash landed Apeldourn, Netherlands. 29-Apr-44 10 x POW. MACR 4447.
B-24 Liberator
This aircraft's last mission was on August 15, 1944, when it was flown by a makeshift crew led by pilot Robert W. Harrington from Attlebridge air base. The target was a Luftwaffe airfield in Vechta, near Bremen, Germany. The target was successfully...
B-24 Liberator
B-24 41-29350 was lost on 18 July 18 1944 over France. The aircraft took a direct hit by flak in the bomb bay while leaving the target, severing the control cables and forcing the pilots to attempt to ditch in the Channel off the coast of France. Four...
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
Mission 291
350 B-24s are dispatched to aviation industry targets in Brunswick
1944-04-08 - MACR #: 3840
Notes:29365 (466th BG, 787th BS) lost Apr 8, 1944. MACR 3840
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06 January 2019 01:13:03 | James Cleveland | Changes to nicknames |
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James Cleveland |
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06 January 2019 01:10:45 | James Cleveland | Changes to nicknames |
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James Cleveland |
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09 March 2018 15:31:01 | 2nd Air Division Memorial Library | Changes to description |
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2nd Air Division Memorial Library |
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11 May 2015 03:05:54 | 466thHistorian | Changes to unit encompassing associations and mission associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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10 April 2015 19:08:15 | EMBLEMHUNTER | Changes to mission associations and media associations |
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my photo |
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06 February 2015 01:36:36 | 466thHistorian | Changes to mission associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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04 December 2014 17:04:02 | 466thHistorian | Changes to unit part of associations, mission associations and stations |
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466th BG Historian |
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28 November 2014 16:59:53 | 466thHistorian | Changes to unit encompassing associations and mission associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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31 October 2014 01:10:43 | 466thHistorian | Changes to type, nicknames, aircraft types, commanding officers associations, mission associations and stations |
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Chris Brassfield |
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27 September 2014 18:42:46 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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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 / The Mighty Eighth. A History of the Units, Men and Machines of the US 8th Air Force.' by Roger A. Freeman (1989). 'Air Force Combat Units of World War II' compiled by the Department of the US Air Force, edited by Maurice Maurer (1983). / 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) |