Museums & Galleries · Suffolk
493rd Bomb Group Museum
📍 IP13 6SW
Photo: Evelyn Simak (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
The 493d Bombardment Group is a former United States Army Air Forces unit that was assigned to the 92d Bombardment Wing during World War II. It the last bombardment group to be assigned to Eighth Air Force. It flew combat missions in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany until shortly before V-E Day, then returned to the United States for inactivation. In 2002, the group was converted to provisional status as the 493d Air Expeditionary Group and assigned to Air Mobil... — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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