B-24J Liberators of the USAAF’s 451st Bomb Group en route to targets in Austria, 1944-45. The 451st (Bomb Squadrons 724th, 725th, 726th and 727th) was one of the three BG (the other was 461st and 484th) of the 15th Air Force’s 49th Bomb Wing headquartered at Castelluccio, Foggia Airfield Complex, Southern Italy, commander Brig. Gen. William L. Lee. Victor Sierra

En route to Austria

4 April 1944: “Angie the Ox”, a B-24D Liberator of the 515th Bombardment Squadron 376th Bombardment (Heavy) Group “Liberandos”, 47th Bomb Wing, USAAF’s 15th Air Force, over the smoking rail yards in Bucharest, Romania. At this time the 376th BG was deployed at San Pancrazio airfield, Apulia, Southern Italy while, from 1 October 1943 to 15 May 1945, the 47th Bomb Wing HQ was quartered at Manduria, Masseria Schiavoni, East of Taranto, ever in Apulia. Victor Sierra

Air raid over Bucharest

American bomber in mission over the Charente, SW France, 12 August 1944. The aircraft is the Consolidated Vultee B-24J-200-CO Liberator s/n 44-41159, "159-P" of the 465th Bombardment (H) Group’s 782nd Bomb Squadron, based at Pantanella, Foggia Airfield Complex, Southern Italy, as part of 15th Air Force’s 55th Bomb Wing headquartered at Spinazzola, commander Brig. Gen. George R. Acheson. This aircraft was lost on the January 31,1945 during a bomb mission against the oil refineries at Moosbierbaum, Austria, and crashed near Budapest. The all bailed out safely and were taken POW. Victor Sierra