339th Bombardment Squadron
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The 339th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 96th Bombardment Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, where it was inactivated on 15 March 1963.
B-47 Stratojet in 96th Bombardment Wing markings
Squadron B-17G Flying Fortress
RAF Andrews Field
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Royal Air Force Andrews Field or more simply RAF Andrews Field is a former Royal Air Force station located 4 miles east-northeast of Great Dunmow Essex, England.
339th Bombardment Squadron
…in the New York Port of Embarkation, sailing on the RMS Queen Elizabeth on 5 May and arriving in Scotland on 13 May. The squadron was established at RAF Great Saling by 12 May, and flew its first combat mission the next day, an attack against the airfield at Saint-Omer, France. However, the squadron was late assembling…
Wartime photo of Andrews Field, taken on 4 September 1943. Numerous B-26 Marauders of the 322d Bomb Group are on the hardstands surrounding the airfield.
Photograph of construction of RAF Andrews Field by the 819th Engineer Battalion (Aviation) of the United States Army during 1942.
Douglas-Long Beach B-17F-25-DL Fortress Serial 42-3123 of the 96th Bomb Group at unfinished Andrews Field, 1943, Later transferred to the 381st Bomb Group at RAF Ridgewell, this aircraft crashed near Fladderlohhausen, 10-mile SE of Quakenbruck near Bremen Germany 8 October 1943. Ten crew KIA.
B-26 of the 322d Medium Bomb Group on the perimeter track prior to takeoff