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USAF records
Accepted: 3 May 1944
Assigned: 7 May 1944 - Douglas Aircraft / Douglas Modification Center # 16 - (Tulsa Municipal)
Assigned: 13 May 1944 / 24 May 1944 - 2nd AF / 7th Heavy Bombardment Processing - (Kearney AAF)
Assigned: 25 May 1944 - ATC / North Atlantic Wing - (Grenier AAF)
Assigned: 28 May 1944 / 1 June 1944 - 8th AF / VIII Service Command / BAD 1 - (RAF Burtonwood)
Assigned: 3 June 1944 - 8th AF / 3rd BD / 4th CBW / 94th BG / 332nd BS - (RAF Bury St Edmunds)
( Square-A ) ( XM * )
Assigned: 10 July 1944 - 8th AF / 3rd BD / 92nd CBW / 487th BG / 838th BS - (RAF Lavenham)
( Square-P ) ( 2C * Q )
Landing accident (class 5): 9 August 1944 @ 1420 hrs (Pilot error)
with Ray Booth, Co-pilot: John McCarthy, Navigator: John Rockey, Togg: Hal Flatt, Flight engineer: Tom Craig, Radio Operator: Fred Sweeney, Ball turret gunner: Cpl Mervyn West, Waist gunner: Roy Hon, pass (all Infantry 9th Arm Gp): Capt Gianelloni, Lt C.D. Nabers, Pfc M.L. Smith
Main landing gear collapsed as aircraft touched ground indicating.
All four engines, propellers damaged, airframe twisted.
Crashed: RAF Lavenham
11 RTD - SOC.
AAF accident report: 45-8-9-535
8th AF mission (Local Training flight)
Salvaged: 12 August 1944 / 15 September 1944
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Lavenham/Alpheton Airfield
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 487th Bomb Group 838th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
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