Author: OSBORN, MALCOLM AND SMITH, DEREK .
Title: Photo History of the 486th Bombardment Group (H) By Malcolm Osborn and Derek Smith
Description: Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire: East Anglia Books, 2012 . 9781869987145. First edition of this comprehensive history of the 486th. A fantastic collection of photographs (many from around Sudbury and Chilton in Suffolk). A large heavy book with dustwrapper in very good condition. 12.0" x 8.5" x 0.75". pp.8/pp.245 /pp.18. Coloured and illustrated dustwrapper. Blue cloth covered boards, with silver gilt titles to the spine. Clean throughout - Excellent condition! (a heavy book which may cost extra to send overseas). VG/VG.** Formed in 1943 from the 9th Anti-Submarine Squadron at Davis Monthan AFB, Arizona. After a period of intensive three phase training, they arrived at Army Air Force Station 174, Sudbury, England, the first B-24H Liberator bomber touching down on March 19th, 1944. After flying 49 missions with their B-24's the 832nd, 833rd, 834th and 835th Bomb Squadrons (H) successfully converted to the B-17G Flying Fortress Bomber which they operated for another 142 missions. This book contains 822 photos, many taken from the late Roley Andrew's collection plus others kindly given by Robin Smith, the 486th's Historian in the USA. Covers every aspect of the 486th's operational history, the men, the machines, the 191 missions flown. Parties, dances, life on and off the base, visiting aircraft, plus non-486th BG aircraft which crashed nearby are also all covered. The appendices contain both B-24 and B-17 aircraft serial listings as well as a full list of all missions flown by the Group.

Keywords: Malcolm Osborn Derek Smith Photo History of the 486th Bombardment Group Sudbury Chilton Suffolk Liberator Military Aircraft Airforce Ww2 50062 Military


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