Browse Collections (58 total)
Unknown Airmen & Ground Crews
Photos taken during the war at Shipdham - where the individuals captured couldn't be identified.
Trolley Missions
The Trolley Missions were flown after VE Day for ground crews to see the outcome of their efforts after 29 months of combat. Many were at Shipdham for…
Strike Photos & Mission Maps
Mission maps, or track charts as they were often referred, were passed out to airmen during a pre-mission briefing. They commonly denoted the dog…
POW
Crews shot down over enemy territory faced grave danger. If they survived Airmen hoped to evade capture using their escape kits (which included a silk…
Ploesti Low-Level Mission
The most famous of all 343 missions flown by the 44th Bomb Group on August 1, 1943. Called Operation Tidal Wave - the goal was to hit oil refineries…
Ordnance & Bomb Store
The ordnance company at Shipdham was responsible for handling every bomb - inspecting, arming, moving to the airfield, and loading them into bombers -…
Operation Varsity Low-Level Resupply
One of three low-level missions flown by the 44th BG - of their 343 wartime missions.