The Snapshots in Time Collection
Group Portrait, Bombardiers and Navigators, 392nd Bombardment Group, 1 June 1944
Bombardiers and navigators of the 392nd Bombardment Group pose for a formal squadron portrait outside their Nissen hut quarters, 1 June 1944. Clad in the iconic A-2 leather flight jacket, these officers flew in B-24 Liberators from Wendling Airfield, Norfolk, as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic daylight bombing campaign over occupied Europe and Nazi Germany. Project: 218549