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Delivered Dallas 26/7/44; Hunter 24/8/44; Grenier 9/10/44; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IW-K] Deenethorpe 18/11/44; 614BS [IW-G]; transferred 305BG Chelveston 20/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.

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A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5725) nicknamed "This is IT!" of the 381st Bomb Group opens her bomb bay doors during a mission.
  • Date: 30 December 1944
  • Date: 5 December 1944
  • Date: 30 November 1944

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  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53399
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 254, 20 Apr 1945, Brandenburg, Germany
  • Media Type: Document
  • 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...
  • 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 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 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 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...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53809
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 204, 6 Feb 1945, Giessen (T.O.) Eisfeld (T.O.) Germany. Briefing took place at 0415 hours. Aircraft loading was ten...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53813
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 200, 28 Jan 1945, Cologne, Germany. Briefing took place at 0500 hours, and all operational aircraft were airborne by...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53865
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 197, 17 Jan 1945, Paderborn, Germany. Group briefing took place at 0600 hours. Aircraft were loaded with six 1,000...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53866
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 196, 14 Jan 1945, Cologne, Germany. Briefing was held at 0600 hours. Twelve of the fifteen 401st aircraft were assigned...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53869
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 194, 10 Jan 1945, Euskirchen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0600 hours. Deenethorpe had been snowed in the previous...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53870
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 193, 7 Jan 1945, Bitburg, Germany. Briefing took place at 0500 hours. By 0921 all aircraft were airborne, although four...
  • Media Type: Document
  • Object Number: Document 53879
  • Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 191, 5 Jan 1945, Koblenz, Germany. Briefing took place at 0500 hours. All but one aircraft, which had lost hydraulic...

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log