27th Bombardment Squadron
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The 27th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 30th Bombardment Group, based at Kahuku Army Airfield, Hawaii Territory. It was inactivated
B-24 Liberators of the 27th BS and 38th BS at Kwajalein in June 1944
East Field (Saipan)
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East Field is a former World War II airfield on Saipan in the Mariana Islands in the Pacific. It was part of Naval Advance Base Saipan.
27th Bombardment Squadron
…hopping campaign, making three hops itself - to Abemama Airfield in the Gilbert Islands at the start of 1944, to Kwajalein Airfield in March 1944 and to East Field, Saipan in the Mariana Islands in August 1944. During this period the squadron had attacked targets in the Marshall, Gilbert and Truk Islands, as well…
Northrop P-61 Black Widows and Republic P-47 Thunderbolts on East Field, June 24, 1945.
Ramp at East Field, fall 1944. Consolidated B-24J-105-CO Liberator 42-109809 "Evasive Action" 819th Bomb Squadron from the 30th Bomb Group, C-47 Skytrains and, in the distance, a B-29 Superfortress
Kagman Field, 25 April 1945