445BG.NET

All of the material contained in this website comes from photos and stories provided by former members of the 445th Bomb Group or their relatives and friends; official U.S. Army Air Force records maintained at the National Archives and Records Administration facility in College Park, Maryland; or from 16mm microfilm records obtained from the Albert F. Simpson Historical Research Center (AFSHRC) at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. In 1983, AFSHRC was redesignated as the United States Air Force Historical Research Center (USAFHRC) and finally renamed the Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA) on September 1, 1991. To date, our research team has accumulated some 110,000 pages of documents relating to the 445th Bombardment Group (Heavy) and the other thirteen bomb groups that made up the Second Bombardment (later Air) Division of the Eighth Air Force during World War II... This website is dedicated to preserving the history of the 445th Bombardment Group (Heavy) that was part of the..