Explore significant dates, missions, people, and events in the history of the 306th Bomb Group. New entries will be added as we continue to preserve and share the Group's history.
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The 306th was assigned a bombing mission to an aircraft assembly and repair works at Oberpfaffenhofen in Southern Germany. Twenty-five B-17s went up as part of the 41st Combat Wing (which also comprised the 92nd Bomb Group and the 305th Bomb Group). On the…
When the 8th Air Force bombing campaign began in 1942, there was no number of combat missions an airman was expected to complete before finishing his wartime tour of duty. Flight crews were required to fly until they died, shot down and became a prisoner…
The very last bombing mission was flown by thirty-eight aircraft with the target the marshalling yards at Falkenburg, Germany. Radio operator Roscoe Bradley on pilot Carroll Hills 367th Bomb Squadron crew became the last man wounded when a piece of flak hit…
April 17 became one of those never to be forgotten days in the history of the 306th Bomb Group as disaster stalked its two dozen planes on a bombing mission to the Focke-Wulf plant at Bremen, Germany. Ten planes were slaughtered by the unrelenting fighter…
423rd squadron radio operator Roskovich was not only the first 306th airman to complete twenty-five missions, but he was also the first airman in the entire 8th Air Force to do so! He was the son of a Russian immigrant and nicknamed the “Mad Russian” as he…