Arthur Williamson
Military | 93rd Bomb Group
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Squadron
Constituted as 330 Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 28 Jan 1942. Activated on 1 Mar 1942. Redesignated as: 330 Bombardment Squadron, Heavy on 20 Aug 1943; 330 Bombardment Squadron, Very Heavy on 23 May 1945.
Military | 93rd Bomb Group
Military | 93rd Bomb Group
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Pilot, Commanding Officer | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 24 June 1944 Crashed at Treon in B-24 'Victory Belle' #42100294
DFC/ AM w/ 2 Oak Leaf Cluster/ PH
Military | Major | Command Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW). Crashed near Burg on 9/11/44 in B-24 "Rat Poison" 42-50989.
Military | 93rd Bomb Group
Military | Major | Co-Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 18 September 1944 Ditched in Channel in B-24 Swt Chrt #4250829
DFC/ AM w/ 2 Oak Leaf Cluster
Military | 93rd Bomb Group
Military | Major General | Command Pilot, Operations Officer, Commanding Officer, Observer | 389th Bomb Group
Lt. Col. Ramsay Potts flew 41 x combat missions in WWII, including deep penetrations from England to the Messerschmidt factory at Weiner Neustadt, Austria and German synthetic fuel plants. On 21-Nov-42, he was engaged by 5 x JU-88's over the Bay of...
Military | 93rd Bomb Group
Group
The 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 1 Mar 42 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. On 15 May 42. the Group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida, to continue advanced flight training and also to fly antisubmarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico. They...
Station | Location | Date |
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Assigned 93rd Bomb Group | 1 January 1942 | |
Based | Alconbury | 7 September 1942 – 22 October 1942 |
Based | Holmsley South | 22 October 1942 – 28 November 1942 |
Based | Hardwick | 6 December 1942 – 15 June 1945 |
Based | Tafaraoui | 7 December 1942 – 15 December 1942 |
Based | RAF Gambut | 16 December 1942 – 25 February 1943 |
Based | Oudna | 18 September 1943 – 3 October 1943 |
Military | Staff Sergeant | Crew Chief | 93rd Bomb Group
Crew Chief on "Maulin' Mallard Sr" #42-109867.
Good Conduct Medal, EAMES Ribbon, Dist Unit Badge
Military | Lieutenant | Bombardier | 93rd Bomb Group
Norman C. Adams was the Navigator/Bombardier of the B-24D, 'Jersey Bounce'. He was shot down in the low level raid over Ploesti and spent 18 months in the Timsul de Jus prison camp north of Ploesti. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the...
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 93rd Bomb Group
Flew Ploesti raid on 1 Aug 43
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 93rd Bomb Group
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 7 December 1942. Took off from Portreath for Oran, crashed into mountain on approach to Tafaroui, killing all crew members. Plane was B-24D-1-CO 41-23707
AM/ PH
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 93rd Bomb Group
Flew 35 missions
EAME Medal w/3 bronze stars; Good Conduct Medal;DFC;Air Medal w 3/Oak Leaf Cluster; Overseas Bar
Military | Technical Sergeant | B-24 Flight Engineer - Top Turret Gunner | 93rd Bomb Group
Tech Sergeant Fred Anderson was a B-24 Flight Engineer and Top Turret gunner, and flew on Operation Tidal wave on Ploesti. 1 Aug 1943.
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Military | Technical Sergeant | Flight Engineer; Top Turret Gunner | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 10 January 1943. 93rd was assigned to N. Africa to help defeat Rommel. B-24D-1-CO 41-23665 'Big Dealer' had mission to La Galite (a small Mediterranean island off Tunisia). Crashed near Bir el Khamsa, Egypt. Crash may have been...
Military | Master Sergeant (1st Grade) | Crew Leader | 93rd Bomb Group
Military | Corporal | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 20 June 1943
B-24 Liberator
29 March 1944, two B24s collided over Henham, a few miles from Halesworth airfield. 9 Crew of the 41-110033 died, and 7 of the 41-28590. During the rescue operations the bomb load of one of the Liberators exploded, killing 6 men from Halesworth.
B-24 Liberator
The B-24D-1-CO, 41-23666, [AG:s] named, Hot Freight, was assigned to the 93rd Bomb Group, the 330th Bomb Squadron at Hardwick, UK. On 18 Mar 43, the aircraft was dispatched on a mission to bomb the port facilities at Vegesack, Germany. The aircraft...
B-24 Liberator
The B-24D Liberator, Exterminator, serial number 41-23717, originally flew with the 329th Bomb Squadron of the 93rd Bomb Group and was later transferred to the 93rd's 330th Bomb Squadron, in March 1943. The first mission with the 330th Bomb Squadron...
B-24 Liberator
The B-24D Liberator, Hot Stuff, was the 1st heavy bomber in the 8th Air Force (93rd Bomb Group, and 330th Bomb Squadron) to complete 25 missions, even though the B-17, Memphis Belle, wears the label of the first 50th mission B-24. Hot Stuff, crashed...
B-24 Liberator
Failed To Return - while withdrawing over the mountains of Macedonia collided in a cloud bank with B24 41-23717. Although the aircraft entered a dive the pilots managed to briefly recover before crashing in flames East of Brod. 4 gunners bailed out...
B-24 Liberator
The B-24D, The Duchess, was in the 8th Air Force, the 93rd Bomb Group, and the 330th Bombing Squadron in Britain. It was detached, transferred temporarily (TDY) to the 9th Air Force in North Africa and flew on Operation Tidal Wave to bomb the oil...
B-24 Liberator
The B-24D, 41-24226, Joisey Bounce, was assigned to Pilot Lt. Walter Travis Stewart in the the 330th Bomb Squadron, the 93rd Bomb Group, and the 8th Air Force, for the large mission to bomb the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania. Col. Stewart changed...
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
Distinguished Unit Citations: North Africa, 17 Dec 1942-20 Feb 1943; Ploesti, Rumania, 1 Aug 1943.
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22 June 2021 09:09:59 | Emily | Changes to us air force combat units of world war ii description, citations, commanding officers associations and stations |
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Squadron Factsheet by Air Force Historical Research Agency |
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13 March 2015 16:11:32 | rossingtonj | Changes to type |
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Type added. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:42:48 | 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 / 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) |