HardwickSkies.
The record of the Eighth Air Force's 93rd Bomb Group. B-24 Liberators flying from Station 104, Norfolk, between September 1942 and April 1945. Assembled for descendants, researchers, and anyone who still looks up.
Three registers.
Mission Log
Every catalogued operation. Date, target, aircraft, crew manifest, narrative, and outcome, cross-referenced to MACRs where they survive.
Browse by date →Crew Roster
All ten positions, honored equally. Photographs, service records, and, where family has contributed, the private letters that made them human.
Meet the crews →Aircraft
B-24D through B-24J. Tail numbers, nose art, service histories, and, when lost, the day and the coordinates.
Ships of the 93rd →The men, in their own words.
He sat behind the cockpit, tuning Liberator frequencies.
William L. Orient | Serial #13111662
He brought the formation home, thirty-six times.
Edward L. McGuire | Serial #O-392667
He sat at the controls, and remembered everything.
Walter F. Hughes | Serial O-764680
We are only at the beginning.
What you see here is a fraction of what the 93rd left behind. Missions are still being reconstructed, crews still being named, photographs still arriving from families who kept them for eighty years. Leave your address and we will write when there is more to read.
An attic box. A shoebox ofletters. A name, remembered.
If you carry a piece of the 93rd, we would be honored to keep it alongside the rest. Nothing is too small.