UPL 54994
IMAGECrash picture, only surviving major piece as a result of mid-air collision on takeoff while forming up. Mission to Kiel. Rest of plane, loaded with bombs and fuel, burned for hours. Tail, right waist and ball turret gunner (Harry E. Hancock) bodies recovered and buried at American Military Cemetery Catsworth. Seven of the ten crewmembers were buried in Section E Site 35 at the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Units
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment