389th Bombardment Group

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389th Bombardment Group (H)

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HISTORIES OF THE COMBAT UNITS OF THE 389TH BOMB GROUP (H)
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HISTORY IN A NUTSHELL
     Constituted as 389th Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 19 Dec 1942 and activated on 24 Dec. Trained for combat with B-24 Liberators. The 389th Bomb Group was the third B-24 heavy bomber unit assigned to the Eighth Air Force. It flew more than 300 combat missions between July 1943 and April 1945.
     Campaigns: Air Combat, EAME Theater; Air Offensive, Europe; Sicily; Naples-Foggia; Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe. Decorations: Distinguished Unit Citation: Ploesti, Rumania, 1 August 1943.
     The following histories of the Group and Squadrons are based on periodic and/or monthly reports which each section provided to the designated group historian during the war. Information and photos have been added where available. Click on an active link to vist that section's history page. Some section histories written during the war provide very little information, such as Communications and Armement. Anyone with photos and/or information about the personnel and operations of these sections is invited to submit for publication here. This is a work in progress. Thank you for your patience with the development process.

389th Bomb Group Histories	564th Bomb Sqnd Histories	565th Bomb Sqnd Histories	566th Bomb Sqnd Histories	567th Bomb Sqnd Histories
Flight Section	Flight Section	Flight Section	Flight Section	Flight Section
Engineering	Engineering	Engineering	Engineering	Engineering
Armament	Armament	Armament	Armament	Armament
Ordnance	Ordnance	Ordnance	Ordnance	Ordnance
Communications	Communications	Communications	Communications	Communications

HISTORIES OF THE COMBAT UNITS OF THE 389TH BOMB GROUP (H) (Click on the units with active links listed below to read their histories.)

HISTORIES OF THE COMBAT UNITS OF THE 389TH BOMB GROUP (H)
(Click on the units with active links listed below to read their histories.)