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 | Mission: #436
Target type: Jet training field
Aerial photos show that the 376th Bomb Group had covered the entire field with clusters of fragmentation bombs. |  | 10/26/2005 | 308 | 
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 | Here you see the Air Force Base Neuburg, where the new Eurofighter is stationed. |  | 09/01/2006 | 284 |
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 | 21 March 1945
Target: Graz Marshalling Yard, Austria
For Mission No. 198 on 21 March the marshalling yard at Graz turned out to be the alternate target selected for pathfinder bombing. The primary target had been the Bruck Marshalling Yard, Austria, but Major Poole, the formation leader, abandoned it because of poor visibility. One thousand pound general purpose ... |  | 11/21/2009 | 49 |
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 | Mission: #446
Target type: railroad bridge
Thirty two aircraft of the 376th BG had numerous, excellent hits registered. | | 10/26/2005 | 221 |
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 | Mission: #434<br />
Target type: ordnance depot
Forty aircraft of the 376th BG, loaded with 38 tons of fragmentation bombs and 35 tons of hundred pound bombs, covered the entire area completely. | | 10/26/2005 | 369 |
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 | STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): 3 missions are flown.
Mission 935: 1,252 bombers and 846 fighters are dispatched to visually
attack underground oil storage, an ammunition plant and 10 jet airfields;
they claim 85-1-60 Luftwaffe aircraft; 7 bombers and 5 fighters are lost:
1. 333 B-17s are sent to hit a munitons plant at Wolfratshausen (76) and
Obe... | | 08/01/2009 | 234 |
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 | Montdidier Airfield on July 17, 1944. This was for bomb damage assessment. The airfield looks abandoned.
FRIDAY, 14 JULY 1944
Mission 473: During the evening 131 B-24s are dispatched to hit airfields in France; 54 hit Montdidier Airfield and 39 hit Peronne Airfield; 9 B-24s are damaged. 40 other B-24s fail to bomb because of failure of blind-bombing equipment. Escort is ... | | 12/24/2008 | 382 |
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 | This photo was taken from the camera pit in Thunderbird on March 28, 1944. The target was an airfield at Dijon, France. Bomb strikes can be seen in one area of buildings. A following group of fortresses wiped out the next group of buildings, while a third group demolished the third group of buildings. The airfield was completely destroyed. | | 09/26/2007 | 466 |
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 | Lady Be Good was an American B-24D Liberator of the United States Army Air Forces, serial number 41-24301, during World War II. Based at Benina Airfield in Soluch (today Suluq), Libya, it crashed in April 1943 returning from a mission and was later discovered in 1959 hundreds of miles into the Sahara with its crew mysteriously missing.
Following an April 4, 1943 bombing raid on N... | | 08/16/2009 | 410 |
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 | On 25 June the Group returned to Paris and again lost one to the vicious flak over that city. The B-24 (44-40129) flown by 1st Lt. Marvin W. Butler of the 855th took a direct burst in the bomb bay and broke in two just aft of the wing. "The tail section floated down slow and easy like a big box kite," but nobody saw any chutes.
8th USAAF Strategic Operations from 25 Ju... | | 06/07/2007 | 368 |
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 | Close-up showing the 859th squadron number (X4) and the tail code (J+) that identifies the Liberator as 44-40132 I'LL BE AROUND.
Lt Menweg's 44-40132 I'LL BE AROUND on the 29 Jun 44 Mission 43 to Magdeburg.
Note blank circle on the wing. Group letter had not yet been applied to any 492nd aircraft at this time.
Of 591 B-24s, 81 hit Magdeburg, 74 hit Oschersle... | | 11/10/2009 | 2,538 |
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 | Here you see the prison of Neuburg. | | 09/05/2006 | 188 |
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