Photograph, 490th Bomb. Group, 8th Air Force, D-Day
€125.00
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Nice genuine WWII USAAF photograph, made up of three pictures related to the preparation of the D-Day bombing raids on the Normandy coast by elements of the 8th Air Force.
The caption reads: Col. Watnee and staff plan our part in the Invasion of France.
At that point, Colonel Lloyd H. Watnee was in command of 490th Bomb. Group, 93rd Bomb. Wing, 3rd Bomb. Division, 8th Air Force. Stationed at RAF Eye, Suffolk, England since October 1943, this group, which included 848th, 849th, 850th and 851st Bomb. Squadrons, flying B-24 Liberators, was to take part in the bombings of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
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