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Delivered Cheyenne 5/2/44; Kearney 16/2/44; Grenier 25/2/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-C] Horham 3/3/44; detailed Achmer 5m 8/4/44 with C.S. McCall, Co-pilot: Bob Broderson, Navigator: Phil Mead, Bombardier: (unknown as new on crew), Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Henry Atchue, Radio Operator: Hon Quan Lee, Ball turret gunner: Paul Albert, Waist gunner: Vernon Whalen, Waist gunner: Dan Kinney,Tail gunner: Elmer Connelly, (10 Returned to Duty); o/s RAF Ellough, at Dodd’s Farm, Beccles, Suffolk; Salvaged 12/4/44.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: United Airlines Modification Center: Cheyenne Airport : Jerry Olson Field
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Manchester Airport, New Hampshire
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
- Date: 8 April 1944
- Date: 27 March 1944
- Date: 26 March 1944
- Date: 23 March 1944
![A B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Ruth L", flown by Lieutenant NL Young, of the 96th Bomb Group flies through a cascade of bombs released by another Fortress over Oranienburg, Germany. Strike camera photo. Handwritten caption on reverse: '22/3/44. Looks like JW code - 92BG? [sic]Supposedly Bremen raid but bombs look like M47.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-408680.jpg.webp?itok=47P7nfd_)
- Date: 22 March 1944