2022
October 8thAFHS Reunion in Washington, DC
SEE ANNUAL REUNION PAGE
Our Deepest Appreciation to Paul and Eileen Hindle who, twice each year order and place flowers for the 466th BGA for both Veterans Day and Memorial Day, at our 466th Memorial at the airfield near
Weston-Longville in Norfolk
Updated 466th Bomb Group Honor Roll
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ATTLEBRIDGE ARSENAL
BOOKS ARE STILL AVAILABLE
ATTLEBRIDGE ARSENAL
Available in USA only
DUE TO POSTAGE RATE CHANGES NOW $60.00 Postage Paid (Checks Only to 466th BGA)
Send to: Bill Curtis, 466th BGA, 515 West Ariel Ave. Foley, Alabama 36535
466th Bomb Group and 8th AFHS DVDs
FOR OUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE POND
and anyone else who is interested
Attlebridge Notes Newsletter
click below:
download pdf file
LAST AMERICAN BOMBER LOST BEFORE THE
GERMAN SURRENDER
Black Cat - Last American airplane shot down over Germany 4/21/45
Farrington Crew
Photo Credit: American Air Museum in Britain
Richard Farrington Crew
Standing Left to Right: John C. Murphy (RN), John A. Perella (N), John A. Regan (CP), Richard J. Farrington (P), George E. Noe (PN), Chris Manners (B)
Kneeling Left to Right: Robert E. Peterson (TG), John C. Brennan (WG), Jerome Barrett (FE), Howard G. Goodner (R/O), Albert Seraydarian (G)
This was the last 466th BG and indeed the last 8th AF B-24 crew shot down in WW2. Manners and Seraydarian were able to bail out. Everyone else in the photo above was KIA.
A wonderful account of the Black Cat Story has been written by the radio-operator's nephew and historian Thomas Childers:
WINGS OF THE MORNING
a great read and available through AMAZON.COM
BOMBER SQAUDRONS of the 466th