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The following sections contain a history of the 445th Bombardment Group (Heavy) from the date of creation through the final combat sortie in April of 1945.
This information comes from various sources:
National Archives in College Park, Maryland Air War Europa by Eric Hammel AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS OF WORLD WAR II, Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF, 1961, ISBN 0-912799-02-1 COMBAT SQUADRONS OF THE AIR FORCE, WORLD WAR II, Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF, 1982 THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II: COMBAT CHRONOLOGY, 1941-1945 by the Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF, 1973 THE MIGHTY EIGHTH WAR DIARY by Roger A. Freeman, ISBN 1-85409-071-2
The following pages will contain references to mission numbers. Those missions are the 8th Air Force Field Order Numbers. For the period the 445th was flying sorties, all 8th AF mission summaries have been included. Those missions flown by the 445th will appear in the text as a small tabular entry. The mission number shown in the first cell indicates which mission number in sequence was flown by the group.
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