44-8327
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FRE 630
A Pilot of the 391st Bomb Squadron, 34th Bomb Group looks out the cockpit of his B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8327) nicknamed "Goom-Bah!!" Image via Malcolm Corum Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B-176 - B/N 85-BO 'R', S/N 4338327 391st Sq 34th BG, Mendlesham, STA - 156, Lt. Joseph Schaws Crew 101.'
Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Delivered Kearney 10/8/44; Cheyenne 18/8/44; Grenier 22/8/44; Assigned 391BS/34BG Mendlesham 24/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 23/6/45; Sth Plains 30/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 20/11/45. GOOM-BAH!!
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Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: RAF Mendlesham
Missions
- Date: 8 April 1945
- Date: 7 April 1945
- Date: 5 April 1945
- Date: 4 April 1945
- Date: 3 April 1945