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- 456th_Bombardment_Group abstract "Activated in June 1943 as a heavy bombardment group. Trained with B-24 Liberators for duty overseas. Moved to Italy, December 1943 – January 1944. Began combat with Fifteenth Air Force in February 1944, operating chiefly against strategic targets until late in April 1945. Early operations included attacks against such objectives as marshalling yards, aircraft factories, railroad bridges, and airdromes in Italy, Austria, and Rumania.Received a Distinguished Unit Citation for performance at Wiener Neustadt, Austria on 10 May 1944: when other groups turned back because of adverse weather, the 456th proceeded to the target and, withstanding repeated attacks by enemy interceptors, bombed the manufacturing center. Helped to prepare the way for and supported the invasion of Southern France during July and August 1944. At the same time, expanded previous operations to include attacks on oil refineries and storage facilities, locomotive works, and viaducts in France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, and the Balkans.Received second DUC for a mission in Hungary on 2 July 1944 when the group braved severe fighter attacks and antiaircraftfire to bomb oil facilities at Budapest. In April 1945 bombed gun positions, bridges, roads, depots, and rail lines to support US Fifth and British Eighth Army in their advance through Italy. Transported supplies to airfields in northern Italy after V-E Day. Returned to the US in July 1945.The 456th relocated to Smoky Hill Army Air Field, Salina, Kansas, on 17 August 1945. Put under control of Second Air Force, for conversion to a B-29 Superfortress group and operations against Japan, and re-designated 456th Bombardment Group, Very Heavy. The Pacific War ended before the conversion was completed, however, and the group was inactivated on 17 October 1945. See 456th Bombardment Wing page for additional lineage and historyThe 456th Bomb Group (Heavy) was an air combat unit of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. A \"heavy bombardment group,\" the 456th operated B-24 Liberator aircraft and was known unofficially as \"Steed's Flying Colts,\" after its commander.The 456th Bomb Group flew 249 bombing missions from Italy while assigned to the Fifteenth Air Force. Its members earned two Presidential Unit Citations for valor in combat and participated extensively in the strategic bombing campaign against oil production targets including Ploieşti, Romania, that resulted in high bomber losses.Inactivated at the end of the war and allotted to the Air Force Reserve, the group was reactivated twice as a bomb and troop carrier group, and later had its lineage and history bestowed on a like-numbered wing of the United States Air Force.".
- 456th_Bombardment_Group activeYearsEndYear "1943".
- 456th_Bombardment_Group activeYearsStartYear "1943".
- 456th_Bombardment_Group battle Budapest.
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- 456th_Bombardment_Group battle Presidential_Unit_Citation_(United_States).
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- 456th_Bombardment_Group militaryUnitSize "50–60B-24aircraft, 2000 personnel".
- 456th_Bombardment_Group role "Strategic bombardment".
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- 456th_Bombardment_Group type Bomber.
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