479th Anti-Submarine Group
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FRE 9307
A B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-63773) of the 479th Anti Submarine Group. This aircraft would later join the 492nd Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Fall, 1943, B-24D-CF, 42-63773, O-Code.'
Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group 4th Anti-Submarine Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-800730
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group 19th Anti-Submarine Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group 4th Anti-Submarine Squadron
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group 4th Anti-Submarine Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group 19th Anti-Submarine Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
Mission
Revisions
ContributorLucy May
Changes
Sources
Brought in aircraft associated to a duplicate unit record. Source:
Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
ContributorCole
Changes
Sources
Family History, Eighth Air Force Museum, Missing Air Crew Report for the crew of "The Sea Hawk" aircraft.
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia