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Ted's Travelling Circus
c. Usually with the and capital initials. A name for: the 93rd Bombardment Group of the U.S. Air Force. Also in Ted's Travelling Circus (after the unit's first commander, Edward J. Timberlake). Now historical.Apparently in reference to the fact that bombers from this unit were deployed in several different theatres of conflict during the Second World War (1939–45).
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1943 Baltimore Sun 27 Mar. 1/5 Back from North Africa where it flew in twenty-three bombing missions over Tunis, Tripoli and Italy, Col. Ted Timberlake's ‘traveling circus’ again is in the thick of the aerial attack on the Continent from Britain.
1944 Amer. Mag. Feb. 111/2 A flock of Consolidated B-24 heavy bombers that are famed in the air forces as ‘Ted's Traveling Circus’.
1962 Air Pict. July 211 Operations from Hardwick had hardly begun when once again the situation in the Mediterranean necessitated additional heavy bombers and the ‘Traveling Circus’ was off again—this time to Tunis.
1999 R. F. Dorr B-24 Liberator Units of Eighth Air Force i. 14 The 93rd BG..was dubbed ‘Ted's Traveling Circus’, after its commander, Col Edward J (Ted) Timberlake Jr.
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