44-6398 Bucket Bunny

media-24322.jpeg UPL 24322 B-17G-50-DL #44-6398 "Bucket Bunny"
463rd BG - 15th AF

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Object Number - UPL 24322 - B-17G-50-DL #44-6398 "Bucket Bunny" 463rd BG - 15th AF

Delivered Kearney 25/7/44; Grenier 8/8/44; Assigned 775BS/463BG Celone 16/8/44; Returned to the USA 1103 BU Morrison 28/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/12/45. BUCKET BUNNY.

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Units served with

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-5287) of the 463rd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force in flight with open bomb bay doors. Handwritten caption on reverse: '463 BG Gills.'

463rd Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Places

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-5287) of the 463rd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force in flight with open bomb bay doors. Handwritten caption on reverse: '463 BG Gills.'

Celone

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Foggia Satellite #1, San Nicola-d'Arpi

Events

Event Location Date Description

Delivered

Kearney, NE, USA 25 July 1944

Assigned

Celone Airfield, Foggia, Province of Foggia, Italy 16 August 1944 463rd BG 775th BS

Revisions

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources

B-17 Flying Fortress Story - Roger Freeman

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

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