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XIII Bomber Command

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Participated in the following campaigns: Central Pacific; China Defensive; Guadalcanal; New Guinea; Northern Solomons; Eastern Mandates; Bismarck Archipelago; Western Pacific; Leyte; Luzon; Southern Philippines; China Offensive.
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command and control organization for Thirteenth Air Force. Its mission was to provide command and control authority of Army Air Force bombardment organizations within the Thirteenth Air Force Area of Responsibility.
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Aircraft is Consolidated B-24D-50-CO Liberator, serial 42-40323 of the
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Index


B-24 Liberator
United States
United States Army Air Forces
Southwest Pacific Theater
China-Burma-India Theater
Central Pacific Theater
United States Army Air Forces
Thirteenth Air Force
Clark Field
Luzon
World War II
Thirteenth Air Force
Pekoa Airfield
Espiritu Santo
Carney Airfield
Guadalcanal
Momote Airfield
Los Negros Island
Wakde Airfield
Wakde
Wama Airfield
Morotai
Clark Field
Luzon
5th Bombardment Group
11th Bombardment Group
42d Bombardment Group
308th Bombardment Wing
310th Bombardment Wing

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