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.
We're just getting started.
Hardwick Skies is a free and open home for the story of the 93rd Bomb Group. These are the stories of the men who flew and the families who still love them. They belong to those families, not to us.
This is a multi-year project. We are gathering records from many places, and we are still cleaning them up and checking them against each other. Please treat what you see here as a work in progress.
on our first trip to the National Archives
Trip 1 · College Park, Md.About one fifth of the reports we need
Week-long trips to finish the job
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 brought the formation home, thirty-six times.
Edward L. McGuire | Serial #O-392667
He sat behind the cockpit, tuning Liberator frequencies.
William L. Orient | Serial #13111662
He sat at the controls, and remembered everything.
Walter F. Hughes | Serial O-764680
New to the record.
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.