43-37796 Stinky
Object Number - UPL 81376 - 43-37796
Accepted by USAAF 25 May 44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY May 44. 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1 Jun 44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27 Jun 44. 750th Bomb Squadron [M], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire, Named 'Stinky'. Accident landing at Glatton 20Jan45; nose compartment torn off. Failed to return from a tactical mission in support of Operation 'Varsity' to a Luftwaffe airfield at Hopsten, Germany 24Mar45. Crash landed Kaiserlautern, Germany. Salvaged 17Apr45.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 457th Bomb Group 750th Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Connington
Missions
- Date: 24 March 1945
Revisions
aircraft info updated from Joe Baugher's USAAF database, mission link, BG/BS links corrected, following incorrect details in Osbourne's Master Log.
Aircraft info corrected from Joe Baugher's USAAF database.
Osbourne Master Log info on this aircraft incorrect (noted as a 306th BG B-17)
