44-40067 Big Fat Mama

media-16193.jpeg UPL 16193 B-24J-145-CO #44-40067 "Big Fat Mama"
466th BG - 786th BS
James B. Carter Crew - Crew #654

Standing Left to Right: Herman J. Juneau (LWG), John Loeper (N), Edwin J. McGinty (CP), Merrill G. Bradlee (RWG), Eugene E. Dillinger (B)

Kneeling Left to Right: Seymour Kopels (TG), James B. Carter (P), Ralph T. McGrath (R/O), Ward W. Hauenstein (FE), Leslie V. Fossey (NG) 466th Bomb Group collection

466th BG Historian

Object Number - UPL 16193 - B-24J-145-CO #44-40067 "Big Fat Mama" 466th BG - 786th BS James B. Carter Crew - Crew #654 Standing Left to Right: Herman J. Juneau (LWG), John...

Original aircraft for the 856th BS, 492nd BG. Total Missions with the 492nd BG: 35.

Total WWII Missions: unknown

 Transferred to 466th BG, 579th BS, 786th BS

Flew missions between 30 Aug 44 - 11 Sep 44, then declared war weary

8 Oct 44: take-off accident, repaired

Transferred to 93rd BG, 328th BS

Scheduled to fly on 24 Dec 44 mission but was scrubbed

Used as a weather ship in 1945

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Units served with

Three little girls hold up a balloon celebrating the 100th mission of the 466th Bomb Group in front of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95592) nicknamed "Black Cat". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'On our 100 Mission party Day- 18 Aug 1944, Attlebridge, 466th- wouldn't it be something if we could identify these girls? How could I do it?'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
A Swedish Soldier guards a B-24 Liberator (serial number 44-40159) nicknamed "Boulder Buff" of the 492nd Bomb Group that has landed in Sweden.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 467th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 859th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-702882
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11093859
  • Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
Black and white posed headshot of man wearing a uniform of a jacket, shirt, tie and cap.  Silver wings and medal ribbons are pinned above left-side jacket lapel.  There are sergeant stripes on the jacket sleeves.  Subject is looking right in lens and is not smiling
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 467th Bomb Group 788th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32453640
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Places

Aerial photograph of Attlebridge airfield, looking north, the fuel store and a T2 hangar are in the upper centre, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/51. English Heritage (RAF Photography).
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120

Missions

A mission log for Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst of the 91st Bomb Group, 3 August 1944 -15 December 1944. Image via Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst, 91st Bomb Group.
  • Date: 5 August 1944
Ten men in Air Force uniform posed in front of a military airplane.  Six men standing to the rear, four men kneeling in front.  Large canvas bags are laying in front of kneeling men
  • Date: 3 August 1944
  • Date: 1 August 1944

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

1st 492nd BG Combat Mission

Mulhouse, France 11 May 1944

Other

Final (64th) 492nd BG Combat Mission

Brunswick, Germany 5 August 1944

Other

1st 466th BG Combat Mission

Villers l'Hopital, France 30 August 1944

Other

Final 466th BG Combat Mission

Magdeburg, Germany 11 September 1944

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