US SQUADRONS - 703rd BS - 445th Bomb Group

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Great looking machine embroidered 130mm (5") diameter patch of the 703rd Bomb Squadron from the 445th Bomb Group based at Tibbenham - Station124 with the 8th USAAF. Flying B24 Liberators in the Europe Air Offensive from Nov 1943 - May 1945 with a unit citation for the mission to the Gotha aircraft works on 24th Feb 1944. These boys had a tough time with the highest loss ever recorded for a Bomb Group of 30 planes on a mission on 27th Sept 1944 when they were decimated near Kassel by a "sturmgruppen" of 48 plus heavily armoured FW-190 who made head on attacks on the 445th Liberators leaving 20 burning B24 wrecks in 3 minutes. Overseas post at cost - estimate £7.00 to USA and EU