Creator

Unknown

1942; 330th Heavy Bomb Squadron [top], 409th Heavy Bomb Squadron [bottom]

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Date

1942

Creation Date

2008-06-13

Description

Black & White photograph of two bomb squadron's personnel posed on top of and in front of Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers from the United States Eighth Army Air Force, 93rd Bomb Group. The group shown at the top is the 330th Heavy Bomb Squadron with an image of Lt. Col. R. D. Potts, Commander, in the top left corner and the aviation squadron insignia in the top right corner of the photo. The group shown at the bottom of the photo is the 409th Heavy Bomb Squadron. Their aviation squadron insignia is shown in the top left corner of the image and Lt. Col. K. O. Dessert, Commander, is shown in the top right corner of the image, circa 1942.

Digital Collection

Arnold Clayton Watkins World War II Photograph Collection, 1942-1945

Collection Number

SpC MS 0006

Finding Aid

https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/3/

Object Type

Photograph

Image Format

Still Image

Location

Europe;

Publisher Digital

Pittsburg State University, Kansas, Axe Library, Special Collections

Rights

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Notes

Pittsburg State University, Special Collections, 6, Watkins, Arnold Clayton, Envelope 7, 01. Contributed by Joan F. Watkins.