Territory Stories

530 Squadron

Details:

Title

530 Squadron,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Darwin, Fenton,

Nation of service

United States of America,

Service

Air Force,

Service branch

Bomber,

Unit

530 Squadron,

Parent unit

380 Bombardment Group USAAF,

Date arrived in NT

1943-05-12,

Date left the NT

1945-02,

History

The Squadron trained in Texas and later Colorado before being deployed to Manbulloo Airfield in May 1943. They flew long range missions to the Dutch East Indies including Noemforr. They moved to the Philippines in early 1945.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, United States Army Air Force, Air Force, United States of America, 380 Bombardment Group USAAF, b24 liberator, 530 Squadron,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1023223 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph P04170.001, Second World War, 1939-1945], http://380th.org/HISTORY/530/530-roster.html [530 Squadron Nominal roll], http://380th.org/380-History.html [A History of the 380th Bombardment Group (H) in World War II], https://trove.nla.gov.au/list/35344 [530 Squadron],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844727,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844727

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844857,