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32ND BOMB SQUADRON of the 301st Bomb Group (H)---For outstanding performance of duty in armed conflict with the enemy on 25 February 1944, thirty-one B-17 type aircraft of this group took off to participate the bombardment of heavily defended enemy aircraft factories and production centers at Regensburg, Germany in one of the first coordinated ...

Material used in this paper was drawn from the histories of the 32nd Bombardment Squadron and higher echelon Organizations to which the Squadron was assigned.

ON THE MISSION OF 14 MARCH 1945, the Fifteenth Air Force dispatched 848 bombers against targets in Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia. The 301st and 97th Bomb Groups used visual aiming to drop 193 tons of bombs on the marshaling yards …

The flight echelon of the 32nd Bomb Squadron (H) departed March Field, California for the Philippines theater around December 1, 1941. The ground echelon left San Francisco on December 5, 1941 but returned immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The 32nd Bomb Squadron in WWII ON DECEMBER 5, 1941, the ground echelon of the 32nd sailed out of Golden Gate aboard the "USS President Johnson", but the fateful events of the morning of December 7th led to a swift change of orders which landed the 32nd back in San Francisco on the 8th.

Preceding the invasion of southern France in August 1944, the 32nd Squadron was called on to bomb enemy coastal defenses as a part of the softening-up process. Supporting the invading 7th Army, the 32nd Squadron dropped many tons of high explosives on gun positions, bridges and communications targets in France and Italy.

Planes from the squadron served as weather ships for the "BOLERO" movement from July 10 to Sept 9, 1942. The ground echelon left New York on August 6 and arrived in the United Kingdom August 18, 1942. They flew their first combat mission to Meulte, France on October 2, 1942. The following 32nd aircraft and crews flew this mission:

His WW ll service included the famous B-17 Bomber, 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group in the 8th Air Force in England, the 12th Air Force in North America and the 15th Air Force in Italy. His Air Force awards were: The Tunisian, Sicilian, Naples, Foggia, Rome, Southern France, Po Valley and Germany Battle... 25-Feb-44 PUC 4/6/1943 PUC

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