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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 18, 2019
Caption: Lewistown Army Airfield Marker
Additional Description: Captions" (top center) 358th Bomb Group - 548th Bomb Squadron at Great Ashfield England circa late June 1943, shortly after leaving Lewistown, Montana.; (bottom center) Airmen at Lewistown Army Air Field in winter flying suits. Pictured taken in January 1943. Temperatures fell to 30 degrees below zero in Lewiston that winter. 2nd Bomb Group - 49th Bomb Squadron Airmen from left to right: S/Sgt. Carl A. Pekkala, Chester Trawczynski, Edward Now, Frank Merril, Robert Tunstall.; (top right) 2nd Air Force commanded bomber training in the western United States during World War II. (bottom right) 2nd Bomb Group, 49th Bomb Squadron; 385th Bomb Group, 548th Bomb Squadron; 390th Bomb Group, 570th Bomb Squadron; 401st Bomb Group. 615th Bomb Squadron.
Submitted: December 17, 2019, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p505438
File Size: 3.467 Megabytes

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