Operation Carpetbagger Memorial
Details:
This memorial is located on the site of one of the former aircraft dispersal points along Lamport Road approximately 1.5 km SE of the museum.
The grey marble memorial was placed in 1987 at a reunion of the Carpetbaggers in honor of those who did not survive the war. It features images of a Carpetbagger B-24 Liberator taking off in front of cottages which can be seen alongside the airfield at Harrington, as well as unit insignia on front and back, as well as black leaf text in English.
Monument Text:
Front: The United States 8th Air Force 801st/ 492nd Bombardment Group (H) Carpetbaggers flew clandestine nightly missions from this secret airfield during World War II in black B-24 Liberator bombers dropping munitions and supplies to underground resistance fighters in Nazi occupied Europe.
Commemorates:
Units:
36th Bomber Squadron, 801st Bomb Group, Heavy
492nd Bomber Group
801st Bomber Group
852nd Bomber Squadron, 491st Bomber Group, Heavy
853rd Bomber Squadron, 491st Bomber Group, Heavy
854th Bomber Squadron, 491st Bomber Group
855rd Bomber Squadron, 491st Bomber Group, Heavy
856th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group
857th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomber Group
858th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, Heavy
859th Bomber Squadron
859th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, Heavy
8th Air Force
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
OSS
Partisans
Resistance
SOE
United States Air Force
United States Army
Wars:
WWII
Battles:
Operation Carpetbagger
Operation Jedburgh (OSS Operations)
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