US WWII USAAF 374th Bomb Squadron (308th Bomb Group) CBI Souvenir Silk Scarf, Identified
This item is listed for historical interest only. It was listed on our site previously but has been sold and is no longer available for purchase.
Sold for: $350.00

Original period manufacture. White silk scarf measuring 48 inches in length, with hand embroidered insignia sewn on to each end. These insignia represent the 14th Air Force, and the 374th Bomb Squadron. In addition,  the embroidered name H.J. Miller appears below the squadron emblem.  The 374th (B-24 Liberators) formed part of the 308th Bomb Group, arriving on their China station in March of 1943. For every combat mission flown, three "Hump" supply missions had to be flown by the units aircraft to keep the supplies coming in. General Claire Chennault had this to say about the 308th, ""They took the heaviest combat losses of any Group in China and often broke my heart by burning thousands of gallons of gas only to dump their bombs in rice paddy mud far from the target.   However, their bombing of Vinh railroad shops in Indo-Chna, the Kowloon and Kai Tak docks at Hong Kong, and the shipping off Saigon were superb jobs unmatched anywhere.   When the Army Air Force Headquarters in Washington tallied the bombing accuracy of every bomb group in combat, I was astonished to find that the 308th led them all."