The 449th Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron is a provisional United States Air Force unit. It was first activated as the 449th Bombardment Squadron in July 1942. After training in the United Stat
Cessna T-37 at Mather Air Force Base
449th Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron
B-26 of the 322d Bombardment Group on a bomb run
Convair T-29C from Mather AFB
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.
449th Flying Training Squadron
…England moved to Essex, an area where it was planned to build up a tactical air force for the forthcoming invasion of Europe, with the 449th arriving at RAF Great Saling on 12 June. Once the squadron entered combat, enemy airfields were its principal targets through February 1944, but it also attacked power stations…
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