42-97931 Madame queen
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 8094 - French prisoners of war await transport home in a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-97931) nicknamed "Madame Queen" of the 401st Bomb Group....
Delivered Denver 8/4/44; Kearney 4/5/44; Dow Fd 21/5/44; Assigned 613BS/401BG [IN-Q] Deenethorpe 1/6/44; 614BS [IW-A]; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 10/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 4/12/45. MADAME QUEEN.
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- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53401
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 252, 18 Apr 1945, Traunstein, Germany
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- Object Number: Document 53403
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 250, 16 Apr 1945, Regensburg, Germany
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- Object Number: Document 53481
- Description: 301st Bomb Group, Mission No. 248, 14 Apr 1945, Royan, France Briefing took place at 0430 hours. While taxying toward the takeoff runway a problem...
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- Object Number: Document 53483
- Description: 301st Bomb Group, Mission No. 247, 11 Apr 1945, Freiham, Germany. Briefing took place at 0500 hours, with Assembly ordered over Buncher Y in France at...
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- Object Number: Document 53484
- Description: 301st Bomb Group, Mission No. 246, 10 Apr 1945, Oranienburg, Germany. On this mission the three squadrons of the 401st made up the 94th Combat Wing "B...
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- Object Number: Document 53514
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 241, 4 Apr 1945, Unterlüss, Germany. Briefing was again scheduled for the early hour of 0250. All operational aircraft...
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- Object Number: Document 53529
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 240, 31 Mar 1945, Weimar, Germany. Briefing took place at the early hour of 0200. The aircraft were each loaded with six...
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- Object Number: Document 53530
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 239, 30 Mar 1945, Bremen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0720 hours for this mission. Aircraft were loaded with twelve...
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- Object Number: Document 53531
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 238, 28 Mar 1945, Berlin, Germany. Briefing took place at 0400 hours. Aircraft loading was six 500 pound GP's plus four...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53558
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 236, 24 Mar 1945, Rheine/Salzbergen, Germany. The Group was briefed at 0300 hours for the first of the day's two...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53559
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 235, 23 Mar 1945, Gladbeck, Germany. Briefing took place at 0615 hours. The Group was informed that the Eighth Air Force...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53562
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 234, 22 Mar 1945, Barmingholten. Briefing took place at 0400 hours, with Lead and Low Squadron ships being loaded with...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53563
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 233, 21 Mar 1945, Hopsten, Germany. Briefing at 0330 hours. The ships of the Lead Squadron were loaded with twelve 500...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53565
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 231, 18 Mar 1945, Berlin, Germany. Briefing took place at 0315 hours. The ships were loaded with twelve 100 pound GP's...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53566
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 230, 17 Mar 1945, Molbis, Germany. The Group was briefed at 0400 hours, and all aircraft were airborne by 0824. Flying...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53567
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 229, 15 Mar 1945, Zossen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0636 hours. The ships were loaded with six 500 pound GP's plus...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53597
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 228, 14 Mar 1945, Lohne, Germany. Briefing took place at 0745 hours. All aircraft were loaded with 34 100 pound GP's...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53598
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 227, 12 March 1945, Swinemunde, Germany. Briefing took place at 0440 hours, pilots being briefed for low visibility take...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53600
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 226, 11 Mar 1945, Bremen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0630 hours. Aircraft were loaded with 42 M-47 IB's. All...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53601
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 225, 10 Mar 1945, Hagen, Germany. The Group was briefed at 0615 hours. Aircraft were loaded with thirty-four 100 pound...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53602
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 224, 8 Mar 1945, Essen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0800 hours. The aircraft were loaded with twelve 500 pound GP's...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53603
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 223, 7 Mar 1945, Siegen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0430 hours. The aircraft were loaded with twelve 500 pound GP's...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53618
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 222, 4 Mar 1945, Schwab-Munchen. Breakfast for flight crews was at 0200 hours and briefing at 0300 hours--another long...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53619
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 221, 3 Mar 1945, Chemnitz, Germany.
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53620
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 219, 1 Mar 1945, Heilbronn, Germany. Briefing took place at 0710 hours, and all operational aircraft were airborne by...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53621
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 220, 2 Mar 1945, Chemnitz, Germany. The Group was briefed for a long mission at the early hour of 0300. By 0707 hours...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53661
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 218, 28 Feb 1945, Soest, Germany. The 401st provided the 94th Combat Wing "B" Group on this mission. As the target was...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53662
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 217, 27 Feb 1945, Leipzig, Germany. Briefing took place at 0700 hours, and all operational aircraft were airborne by...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53704
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 215, 25 Feb 1945, Munich, Berlin. Briefing took place at 0330 hours. Aircraft loading was six 500 pound RDX's plus 6 M17...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53705
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 213, 23 Feb 1945, Ottingen, Germany. Another early briefing-- at 0345 hours. Aircraft loading was twelve 500 pound G.P...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53706
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 212, 22 Feb 1945, Ludwigslust, Germany. Briefing took place at 0445 hours, and all operational aircraft were off by 0905...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53788
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 211, 21 Feb 1945, Nurnberg, Germany. Group briefing took place at 0345 hours. Pilots were warned of obstructions and...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53792
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 209, 16 Feb 1945, Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The Group was briefed at 0700 hours. Aircraft loading was twelve 500 pound G...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53803
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 208, 15 Feb 1945, Dresden, Germany. The Group was briefed at 0400 hours. Aircraft loading was eighteen 250 pound G.P.'s...