The 44th Bomb Group in World War IIThe 44th Bomb Group, which flew the B 24 Liberator, was the pioneer unit for what evolved from the Mighty Eighths 2nd Bomb Wing into a full scale Bomb (and later Air) Division. The Group amassed an impressive 343 missions and won two Distinguished Unit Citations between November 1942 and April 1945, dropping nearly 19,000 tons of ordnance in the process including the legendary August 1943 Ploesti mission. These statistics were achieved at a material