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The 329th Bomb Group (and its successor designations) was the major operational training unit (OTU) at Columbia AAB during World War II, providing crew and replacement training in B-25s until 1 May 1944 when the 309th was re-designated as the 329th Bombardment Group.
Martin B-26B-35-MA Marauder, 41-32067, flown by Donald A. Landis, and B-26C-20-MO, 41-35169, piloted by Thomas W. Wilson, both of the 477th Bomb Squadron, 335th Bomb Group, involved. 3 March "SANTA ANA, March 4 – The Marine air base announced today that two fliers were killed yesterday in a plane crash seven miles east of San Juan Capistrano."
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Squadron emblems of the United States Air Force. This is a list of United States Air Force Bomb Squadrons. It covers all squadrons that were constituted or redesignated as bombardment squadron sometime during their active service. Today Bomb Squadrons are considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) along with fighter squadrons. Units in this list ...
A U.S. Navy Grumman A-6A Intruder No. 156998, flown by pilot LT James D. Maynard, age 25, and bombardier LTJG William H. Van Stone, Jr., of VA-145 stationed at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, crashed while on a routine practice bombing run over the Boardman Bombing Range near Boardman, Oregon. Although both crewmen ejected, the 23-year old Van ...
The Boeing B-29-40-BW Superfortress [30] that led the first B-29 raid on Tokyo on 24 November 1944 (42-24592), nicknamed "Dauntless Dotty", of the 869th Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force, left Kwajalein at 3:06 am for the second leg of a ferry flight back to the United States, commanded by Capt. William A. Kelley ...
The Army Air Forces also employed two composite groups with their own TO&Es: the 28th Bomb Group (15 B-24 and 30 B-25), and the 509th Composite Group (15 B-29 and 5 C-54). 19 heavy groups and one light bomb group were to be converted to very heavy groups for duty against Japan, but the war ended before the plan was carried out.
[1]: 2–3 Flight 841 dove about 34,000 feet (10,000 m) in just 63 seconds. [1]: 2 During the course of the dive, the plane rolled through 360 degrees at least twice and exceeded the Mach limit for the 727 airframe. At about 15,000 feet (4,600 m) the pilots extended the landing gear in an attempt to slow the aircraft. A few seconds after ...
A B-25 at Issaqueena Bombing Range near Columbia SC in 1942 [note 2] The wing was first activated in the early expansion of the Army Air Forces during World War II as the 309th Bombardment Group at Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona. [2] Its initial components were the 376th, [3] 377th, [4] and 378th Bombardment Squadrons, [5] and the 37th ...