466th Bomb Group Memorial

Weston-Longville, Norfolk  UK

Special Thanks to Paul and Eileen Hindle for wonderfully maintaining our memorial site and arranging for the wreath

                                              to:

             https://www.facebook.com/466historian/?fref=ts

"ATTLEBRIDGE NOTES"

Spring 2021      PDF Below

SEE 8TH AFHS REUNION INFO---466th-News Page

See the 466th 2021 Treasurers Report on 466th-News Page

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

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Attlebridge Notes Newsletter

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SUMMER-FALL 2017

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

The 466th Bomb Group flew 231 combat missions with 5,693 sorties, dropping nearly 13,000 tons of bombs. The 466th was one of three groups in the 96th Combat Bomb Wing, which was taken off operations in September 1944 to haul low octane gas to Clastres, Lille, and St. Dizier, France. The total losses for the 466th BG from March 22, 1944 to April 25, 1945, were 333 KIA, 171 POWs, eight evaded and 27 interred. The 466th B-24, The "Black Cat" was the last American bomber shot down over Germany , April 21, 1945.

RESOURCE SITES

466th WEBSITE:                                                                     http://www.8thafhs.org/bomber/466bg.htm

466TH BOMB GROUP FACEBOOK SITE:                     https://www.facebook.com/pages/466th-Bomb-Group-H-Attlebridge/106061169438975

AMERICAN AIR MUSEUM IN BRITAIN                                      http://www.americanairmuseum.com

HERITAGE LEAGUE of the 2nd Air Div.                                    http://heritageleague.org                              

2ND AIR DIVISION MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Norwich)                       www.2ndair.wordpress.com

8TH AIR FORCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY                                               www.8thafhs.org

8TH AIR FORCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FACEBOOK SITE:        https://www.facebook.com/groups/8THAFHS/

B-24 NOSE ART SITE                                                                  http://www.b24bestweb.com8thafhs

8th Air Force Historical Society Videos (DVD's)                   http://www.billcurtisvideoproduction.com/8thafhs.php

(Plus B-24  Liberator Artwork)

466th VETERAN VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE

DVD's also available at http://www.billcurtisvideoproduction.com/8th-air-force-historical-society-videos.php