8th air force bomb groups
[DOC File]Dad, - musketmedia
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8th Air Force’s two wings would split the attack. Col LeMay's 4th Bombardment Wing would go against Regensburg, and Brig Gen William’s 1st Bombardment Wing would go against Schweinfurt. This decision in itself is interesting; the 8th had waited a long time to gather the 400 odd bombers it …
[DOC File]Lewis_Jack_S_Profile
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Clark Field was bombed just after lunch on Dec. 8th as Jack watched from his mountain outpost. The 300,000 Japanese troops pushed the 20,000 American and 150,000 untrained Filipino troops down into the Bataan Peninsula, where the out-numbered allies continued to defend the Philippines against tremendous odds through the winter and into spring.
[DOC File]THE BATTLE FOR TINIAN U
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Two days before the Indianapolis arrived at Tinian, General Carl Spaatz the new commander of Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific was issued his orders, "The 20th Air Force will deliver its first special bomb as soon as weather permits visual bombing after 3 August, 1945 on one of the following targets, Kokura, Hiroshima, Nigata or Nagasaki”.
[DOC File]Martin B-26 Marauder
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All B26's in England were originally under the control of 8th Air Support Command, 8th Air Force until October 1943 (322nd, 323rd, 386th and 387th Bomb Groups). In October 1943 they were transferred to IXth Bomber Command, IXth AAF. In the Spring of 1944 the new Groups arrived (344th, 391st, 394th and 397th Bomb Groups).
[DOCX File]Target For Today! Rules - Steven K. Dixon
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The lowest autonomous heavy bomber units operating in both the 8th and 15th Air Forces were the Bomber Groups. The Air Force chain of command was somewhat flexible with several bomber groups making up a Bomb Wing. Two or more Bomb Wings were assigned to an Air Division. The Air Divisions were assigned to the 8th or 15th Air Force.
[DOC File]Chapter 20: The World at War
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Air War. Allied air forces based in GB attacked deep into Germany - hoped to cripple the German war economy. between January 1943 and May 1945, the British Royal Air Force and the US 8th Army Air Force dropped 53,000 tons of explosive on Germany every month
[DOCX File]National Archives
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The aeronautical charts from the 14th Air Force command indicate points of interest in China, Formosa, and Korea. The 7th Bomber Command charts detail military encampments on the Gilbert Islands. Aeronautical charts of the 13th Air Force Southern Pacific Command show areas in the Southern Pacific that are covered by a mapping project.
[DOC File]387th Bombardment Group
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Losses were reduced, bombing accuracy improved and the groups effectively supported the fighting in Sicily and Italy from bases in Corsica and Sardinia. In the meantime more groups were arriving in England and were assigned to the Eighth Air Force, understandably pre occupied with heavy bomber operations against strategic targets in Germany.
[DOC File]Wing Lineages
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Dates for Service and Campaign Streamers are as listed in Air Force Instruction 34-1201. ... 8th Weather Group (later 8th Weather Group [MAJCOM]) on 12 December 1945 at Grenier Field, New Hampshire. ... Its units supported Operation Crossroad, the atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in June 1946, and Operation Pacusan Dreamboat, the record-setting ...
[DOC File]596TH BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON
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Two groups of Eighth Air Force Liberators were diverted to A-72 on 16 February. A total of fifty B-24’s of the 44th and 392nd groups landed on this field after fog conditions closed in English bases. The Eighth Air Force men were quartered in the existing accommodations on the field, a number of them staying with in the Headquarters Barracks.
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