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 483rd Bomb Group - National Museum Memorial Park - Wright-Paterson AFB, OH Posted by:  YoSam.
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483rd Bomb Group part of the 15th Air Force
Waymark Code: WMW0K0
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 06/22/2017
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County of memorial: Montgomery County
Location of memorial: 1100 Spaatz Street, Memorial Park, Wright-Patterson AFB
Memorial erected by USAF
dedicated 30 September 1983
Monument Text: Dedicated 30 September 1983
to the men of the
483rd
BOMBARDMENT GROUP (H)
5th WING 15th AIR FORCE
Sterparone (Near Foggia) Italy
Activated 22 September 1943
Ephrata, Washington
Deactivated 25 September 1945
Pisa, Italy
Flew 215 Combat Missions in B-17S
12 April 1844 to 26 April 1945
Destroyed 76 Enemy Aircraft
Lost 74 Aircraft
Awarded Two
Distinguished Unit Cittions
Memmingen, Germany
18 July 1944
Berlin, Germany
24 March 1945
Across the bottom of the monument is incised the shoulder patches of the four squadrons: 815, 816, 817, & 840 (see gallery for these patches)
"Constituted on 14 September 1943 and activated on 20 September. They moved to Italy during March-April 1944, and was assigned to Fifteenth Air Force. Began flight operations in April 1944 and continued until V-E Day in May 1945. 483rd missions included targets of factories, oil refineries, marshalling yards, airdromes, bridges and troop concentrations. Targets were located in in Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, and Greece. They received a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for action on 18 July 1944 when on a mission to the airdrome and installations at Memmingen, the 483rd, without any fighter escort, they engaged numerous enemy aircraft in the target area and also successfully bombed the objective." ~ 483rd Bomb Group
Date of Dedication: 09/30/1983
Property Permission: Public
Access instructions: National Museum Hours
Access times: From: 9:00 AM To: 5:00 PM
Website for Waymark: [Web Link]
Location of waymark:
1100 Spaatz Street, Wright-Patterson AFB 45433
Commemoration: 483rd Bomb Group during WWII
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