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The aircraft were fuelled and bombed up and left Bungay at 2am. June 1944 there was a detailed briefing session. The group was occasionally diverted from strategic missions to carry out air support and interdiction missions. The group's 706th BS flew 62 consecutive missions and 707th BS had 68 missions without loss. Its targets included ball bearing factories at Berlin, marshalling yards at Koblenz, submarine pens at Kiel, aircraft plants at Munich, port facilities at Ludwigshafen and aircraft engine manufacturing plants at Rostock. The group operated chiefly against strategic objectives. December 1943 against shipping facilities in Bremen, Germany, losing one airplane that crashed just short of the field due to fuel exhaustion.
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The group flew its first mission on 16th. There were four squadrons, 704BS, 705BS, 706BS and 707BS flying B-24 Liberators with 70 crews of 10 men and at any one time there were about 2,000 men stationed on the airfield. The remainder of the group safely arrived at its new base. Fowlkes strayed from the planned route and flew too close to the Brest Peninsula, where it was attacked by Focke-Wulf Fw 190, Junkers Ju 88 fighters and anti-aircraft fire from the Luftwaffe and was shot down. suffered its first combat loss even before arriving in England when the aircraft commanded by 2nd. BG was the first Army Air Forces group to complete the Transatlantic hop from Brazil to Africa without the installation of additional bomb bay fuel tanks. The aircrews ferried their planes under the control of Air Transport Command via the southern route from Florida through Puerto Rico, Brazil, Senegal, and Morocco to England. October 1943 for staging at Lincoln Army Air Field, Nebraska. October 1943 and arrived in Greenock on the Firth of Clyde on 2nd. October 1943 for Camp Shanks, New York and embarked on the RMS Queen Mary, sailing on 27th. The ground echelon left Lowry Field, Colorado on 18th. They adopted the nickname "Bungay Buckeroos" after the nearby market town, Bungay and the local pub in Flixton, The Buck Inn. BS undertook special intruder operations called "Moling" These were nuisance raids by individual aircraft in bad weather, with the aim to harass the German air raid warning systems, but if the skies cleared the aircraft were at risk. BS used it's base facilities.Ä«etween January and March 1943 the 329th. Before the airfield was finished both the 428th. The airfield was originally planned as a satellite base for the 93rd.