Lockheed Martin® (Consolidate) B-24J Liberator 400th Bomb Squadron 'Jolly for Sale

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Lockheed Martin® (Consolidate) B-24J Liberator 400th Bomb Squadron 'Jolly For Sale

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Lockheed Martin® (Consolidate) B-24J Liberator 400th Bomb Squadron 'Jolly:
$379.00

400th Bomb Squadron 'Jolly Rogers' 90th BG B-24J Model

Fly again with the 400th Bomb Squadron 'Jolly Rogers' 90th BG in this wooden BG B-24J Model. Each model is carefully carved from wood and meticulously painted to provide a piece you will proudly display.

Length - 11.5 inches
Wingspan - 17.5 inches
Made from Mahogany
US Veteran-Owned Business
Officially Licensed by Lockheed Martin
The product is not intended to be used by children 12 years and younger.

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The squadron was first organized as the 10th Reconnaissance Squadron at Key Field, Mississippi in April 1942 as a Consolidated B-24 Liberator unit and one of the original squadrons of the 90th Bombardment Group. Within a week the squadron name was changed to the 400th Bombardment Squadron. The squadron trained with Liberators in the southeastern United States under III Bomber Command until August.[3]

"Jolly Rogers" of the 90th Bombardment Group on a mission, 1943
The squadron moved to Willow Run Airport, Michigan for conversion training on newly manufactured Ford Liberators. Assigned to VII Bomber Command with B-24Ds, the unit moved to Hickam Field, Hawaii in September. The squadron arrived in northern Queensland, Australia in November 1942 and began bombardment missions under V Bomber Command almost immediately.[3]

The squadron attacked enemy airfields, troop concentrations, ground installations and shipping in New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Palau and the southern Philippines. The 400th was awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation for its operations in Papua between through January 1943. The unit participated in the Battle of Bismarck Sea in March 1943, and earned another citation for strikes on enemy airfields at Wewak, New Guinea in September 1943 despite heavy flak and fighter opposition.[3]

During 1944, the 400th supported the New Guinea Campaign through the end of June, then made long-range raids on oil refineries at Balikpapan, Borneo, in September and October. In January 1945, the squadron moved to the Philippines and supported ground forces on Luzon, attacked industrial targets on Formosa, and bombed railways, airfields, and harbor facilities on the Asiatic mainland. Shortly before the end of the war in the Pacific, the 90th moved to Okinawa, from which it would be able to strike the Japanese home islands.[3]

After VJ Day, the squadron flew reconnaissance missions over Japan and ferried Allied prisoners of war from Okinawa to Manila. It ceased operations by November 1945. The squadron was inactivated in the Philippines in early 1946.[4]