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301st HBG, 352nd BS Bachelors' DELIGHT Moonlight Cocktail Bachelors’ DELIGHT Moonlight Cocktail 301st Unit Citation
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301st Bombardment Group B-17 Flying Fortress Identified by Green Tail Section Constituted as 301st Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 28 Jan, 1942 Activated on 3 Feb, 1942. Moved to England July - August 1942 assigned to the Eighth AF. Moved to North Africa November 1942, assigned to the Twelfth AF. Reassigned to the Fifteenth AF in November 1943. Moved to Italy in December of 1943. Returned to the US in July 1945. Designated 301st Bombardment Group (Very Heavy) August of 1945. Inactivated on October 15, 1945. Attached to the 301st. Bomb Squadrons; 32nd BS, 352nd BS, 353rd BS and the 419th BS. Citation of Units: 301st Heavy Bombardment Group. For outstanding performance of duty in armed conflict with the enemy. 25 February 1944, 31 B-17 type aircraft of this group took off to participate in the bombardment of heavily defended enemy aircraft factories and production centers in Regensburg, Germany. This was one of the first coordinated attacks by Air Forces operating out of different theaters against a target deep in the industrial heart of Germany. Ten aircraft of this group were forced to turn back shortly after take-off seriously decreasing the fire power strength of the bomber formation while en-route to the target. After a rendezvous with other units and without fighter escort, the formation encountered its first enemy opposition near Fiume, Italy. The formation found itself under constant attack by more than one hundred enemy fighters until the group reached its target. Throughout, an intense and vicious air battle took place with the 301st HBG losing eleven aircraft. A highly successful bombing run was made inflicting serious damage to the vital manufacturing centers, while under heavy and intense enemy anti-aircraft fire. Leaving the target area the bomber formation was once agian subjected to heavy enemy fighter attack (an estimated two-hundred fighter aircraft). The gunners of this group were credited with the destruction of thirty one enemy aircraft during this mission. Of the bomber crews that returned, seven crew members were wounded and three killed. Eleven B17's and one-hundred and ten crew members failed to return. 352nd 32nd 353rd 419th