381st BGMA: Bomb Group History

381st Bombardment Group (Heavy) - Station 167, Ridgewell, UK

From humble beginnings at Pyote, Texas, the 381st Bombardment Group (Heavy) mobilized to full combat strength and deployed to Station 167, Ridgewell, England. Over the next 22 months the citizens of East Anglia and their friendly American invaders would establish binding ties that exist to this day.

Photos & Base Map -- Video Clips of the 381st

381st Bomb Group (Heavy) - History

Self published Group History & Command Staff Photos, Additional staff photos
Vacher and Sons PDF * (2.3mb Adobe PDF document) a Group History publication prepared and printed in 1945 by Vacher and Sons, Ltd., of Westminister, London. This document is thirty-three pages in length and provides a great summary of the Group's activities.
Group War Diaries - monthly transcriptions of the War Diaries.
- 381st BG, 10 months out of 17 available, 9 months are missing from the archives.
- 532nd BS - complete
- 533rd BS - complete
- 534th BS - complete
- 535th BS - complete
- 448th Sub Depot - complete
- 242nd Medical Depot - complete
- 7th Station Complement Sqdn - complete
- 242nd Medical Dispensary AVN - complete
- 881st Chemical Company - complete
- 1142nd Military Police Co - complete
- 1207th QM Company - complete
- 1775th Ordnance Co - complete
Missions Flown by Group
Aircraft Assigned to Group
Stories by 381st BGMA members
381st Microfilm Index

432nd Air Service Group (formed April 1945):

Commands absorbed by the reorganization:

448th Sub-Depot
- Organizational Chart - graphic

Video from Ridgewell, circa 1943 ~ 1945 filmed by 858th Air Engineering personnel.
Photos, more Photos
War Diary

7th Station Complement
- War Diary
1207th Quartermaster Company
- War Diary
2021st Fire Platoon, EAFFP
1142nd M.P. Company (AVN)
- Unit Photo
- War Diary
1775th Ordnance Supply and Maintenance
- Unit Photo, 4th Echelon photo
- War Diary
242nd Medical Dispensary (AVN RS) - complete war diary transcription
- Organizational Chart - graphic
- Unit Photo
- Photos
- War Diary

Not absorbed in this reorganization:

Det "A", 881st Chemical Company (AO)
- Roster
- Images
- War Diary