449th Bombardment Squadron 3rd Air Force

Artist: Van Kaufman (All)

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Title:	449th Bombardment Squadron 3rd Air Force
Artist:	Van Kaufman (All)
Media Type:	Paint - Watercolor
Art Type:	Commission
For Sale Status:	nfs
Views:	847
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Added to Site:	1/13/2018
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Combat insignia i believe that was mistakenly described in Heritage auction where they described the 449th under the 3rd Air Force flying B-24 Liberators. What was described was the 449th under the 15th Air Force that was not formed until 1943 and i know for positive that this insignia was painted in July 1942 when the Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber Squadron was established in mid-1942; trained under the Third Air Force in Florida. Deployed to European Theater of Operations, being assigned to VIII Bomber Command 3d Bombardment Wing in England. Engaged in attacks on enemy targets in France and the Low Countries; being reassigned to IX Bomber Command in 1943 with the establishment of Ninth Air Force in England. Also supported VIII Bomber Command strategic bombardment raids in Occupied Europe and Nazi Germany, attacking enemy airfields to disrupt interceptor attacks on heavy bomber formations and destroy enemy interceptor aircraft on the ground before they could be launched.

After D-Day deployed to Advanced Landing Grounds in France and later Belgium. Provided tactical air support and bombardment of enemy strong points and military targets to disrupt resistance to Allied ground forces advancing from the French invasion beaches and the ensuing offensives on the continent; 1944-1945. Attacked enemy forces as part of the Western Allied invasion of Germany, 1945 and continued offensive tactical operations in support of ground forces until German capitulation in May 1945.

Became part of the United States Air Forces in Europe army of occupation in Germany during 1945. Demobilized in place and personnel returned to the United States in the fall of 1945; squadron inactivated as a paper unit in December 1945.---

Published in CHARACTER ZU of MILITARY DISNEY STUDIO & ANIMATOR SEISE by Takahashi Nobuyuki, Japan,2015,page 87.---Do you suppose there is a symbolic connection to the English Lion ?

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