The Snapshots in Time Collection

WWII B-24 Liberator Bomb Fuze Safety Pins with Handwritten Mission Tags, November-December 1944

WWII B-24 Liberator Bomb Fuze Safety Pins with Handwritten Mission Tags, November-December 1944

Bomb fuze safety pins, pulled just before release and kept as personal trophies, document seven combat sorties flown by a B-24 Liberator crew between November and December 1944. Handwritten tags record missions against strategic oil, rail, and industrial targets across occupied Europe -- Blechhammer, Munich, Linz, and beyond -- along with the brutal high-altitude cold these airmen endured, with temperatures reaching 46 degrees below zero. Project: 218356