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The Scrapbook Archives - Wendling, Norfolk
The focus of this scrapbbook is the 392nd Bombardment Group, stationed at Wendling, Norfolk
392nd Bomb Group
"The first group in the 8th AF to be fully equipped with nose-turreted B-24H Liberators, the 392 flew its first mission (Abbeville, France) on 9th September 1943, and the last (Hallein, Austria) on 25th April 1945. On its 285 missions it lost 184 planes missing in action, with 1,553 crewmen killed, missing or wounded in action. It was given a Distinguished Unit Citation for its part in an attack on an aircraft factory at Gotha, Germany on 24th February 1944."
All photographs supplied by the Second Air Division Memorial Library and
private collectors.
There are several good histories of the 392nd Bomb Group available for use in the 2nd Air Division memorial Library, in addition to the standard histories of the 2nd Air Division and the 8th Air Force. Among those histories are:
Vickers jr. Col Robert L: Liberators from Wendling
Vickers jr.Col Robert L: Wendling's Crusaders
Hawkins, Ian L: 392nd Bombardment Group:20th Century Crusaders
Information about the individual bases from George H. Fox's 8th Air Force Remembered: an illustrated guide to the memorials, memorabilia and main airfields of the US 8th Air Force in England in WW2 (London: ISO Publications, 1991).
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