Lester W Hundelt
MilitaryInsufficient power on T/O, hit fence at departure end of r/w severing hydraulic lines. Returned with full bomb and gas load, touched down about on the numbers at 115mph, ran off departure end, crossed three small ditches, a road, a deep ditch, and struck a tree. A/c came to rest on opposite side of ditch with main and nose grear collapsed. RTD
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: San Antonio Rose
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 67th Bomb Squadron
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://8thairforce.com/44thbg/search/perlastname.asp; Losses of 8thAF, vol.4