Is there any way I can find out what bomber group my great-grandad flew with?

by DeebosWings

He kept a log of the 32 missions he flew in 1944 and I wrote them down, I just don't know anything else about his time in Europe.

jschooltiger

Hello there! As your question is related to looking for identification/information regarding military personnel, our Guide on Military Identification may be of use to you. It provides a number of different resources, including how to request service records from a number of national agencies around the world, as well as graphical aids to assist in deciphering rank, unit, and other forms of badges or insignia. While the users here may still be able to lend you more assistance, hopefully this will provide a good place to start!

dollarbill1247
  • I can't read his handwriting very well this is what i recorded so far
  1. May 19 Berlin
  2. May 28 Leipzig
  3. May 29 Brussels
  4. May 31 Ostenbrick?
  5. June 2 Boulogne
  6. June 2 Paris
  7. June 5 Boulogne
  8. June 6 ???
  9. June 6 Falaise
  10. June 7 Nantes
  11. June 12 St. Omer
  12. June 14 Milk Run
  13. June 15 Hanover
  14. June 20 Fallersleben
  15. June 22 Paris
  16. July 4 Milk Run
  17. July 6 Calais Area
  18. July 7 Leipzig
  19. July 8 Milk Run
  20. July 11 Munich
  21. July 12 Munich
Bigglesworth_

If you follow the "Requesting Records" section of the link /u/jschooltiger posted you may be able to obtain his military records; if you just have a list of targets it might be possible to work out some more information via Google, some Bombardment Groups have extremely detailed websites (e.g. the [303rd] (http://www.303rdbg.com/index.html)), and Google Books has reasonable chunks of works like Kevin A. Mahoney's [Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis] (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kKzY38pNo7cC) to preview, but it's a lot more hit and miss.

DeebosWings

I can't read his handwriting very well this is what i recorded so far

  1. May 19 Berlin
  2. May 28 Leipzig
  3. May 29 Brussels
  4. May 31 Ostenbrick?
  5. June 2 Boulogne
  6. June 2 Paris
  7. June 5 Boulogne
  8. June 6 ???
  9. June 6 Falaise
  10. June 7 Nantes
  11. June 12 St. Omer
  12. June 14 Milk Run
  13. June 15 Hanover
  14. June 20 Fallersleben
  15. June 22 Paris
  16. July 4 Milk Run
  17. July 6 Calais Area
  18. July 7 Leipzig
  19. July 8 Milk Run
  20. July 11 Munich
  21. July 12 Munich