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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.
Plate 02 · On Approach · Norfolk 1944
Plate 01 · In Formation · 1944Three 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 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
He sat behind the cockpit, tuning Liberator frequencies.
William L. Orient | Serial #13111662
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.