Territory Stories

64 Bombardment Squadron

Details:

Title

64 Bombardment Squadron,

Collection

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

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Daly Waters, Fenton,

Nation of service

United States of America,

Service

Air Force,

Service branch

Bomber,

Unit

64 Bombardment Squadron,

Parent unit

43 Bombardment Group (Heavy),

Date arrived in NT

1942-05-16,

Date left the NT

1942-09-25,

History

On 2 August the first of the bomber units to use Fenton airfield 64 Bombardment Group equipped with B17E Fortresses arrived. It moved to Darwin the following month the aircraft going to the 19 Bomb Group at Mareeba in Queensland.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, Dates: -- Daly Waters, 16 May 1942 to 2 August 1942 -- Fenton, 2 August 1942 to 25 September 1942,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, United States Army Air Force, Air Force, United States of America, 43 Bombardment Group (Heavy), b17e fortress, 64 Bombardment Squadron,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

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

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C258956 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph P00264.020, Second World War, 1939-1945], https://www.armyaircorpsmuseum.org/43rd_Bombardment_Group.cfm [History of the 43rd Bomb Group], https://trove.nla.gov.au/list/34645 [64 Bombardment Squadron],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844729,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844876