media-380840.jpg FRE 2036 This aircraft is B-24 44-40328 'This Above All'.
• It was a 493rd Bomb Group, 863rd Bomb Squadron original aircraft transferred before 6 Jun 1944 (date of 493rd BG's first combat mission) to the 34th Bomb Group, 391st Bomb Squadron.
• It was flown on missions of the 34th Bomb Group from 6 June 1944 through 16 August 1944.
• It was later assigned to the 466th Bomb Group, 786th Bomb Squadron (squadron code U8, with radio call letter T), and was flown on missions from 25 October 1944 through 25 April 1945.
• It was then redeployed to the Zone of the Interior (United States). It was never assigned to 487th Bomb Group.
• The nose art was was signed "SGT DUANE BRYERS." Sgt Bryers painted the nose art on the aircraft at Sheppard Field, Texas, before the overseas deployment of the 493rd Bomb Group.
Sources:
1. Tom Brittan of B-24 BestWeb
2. Ivo de Jong, author of 'The History of the 487th Bomb Group (H)' Roger Freeman Collection

466th BG Historian