9th Air Force
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Lt. Harold Korger flew as navigator on the B-24D bomber # 41-11825, 'Hail Columbia" , on the mission to Ploesti, Romania, "Operation Tidal Wave" - 'Hail Columbia' was named and piloted by Col. John Riley "Killer" Kane and Lt. John S. Young from Dallas Texas. Four .50 cal. fixed nose guns, visible in this photo, were added to the lower front nose for the Ploesti Mission to be able to strafe the German flak guns, as they were bombing the Romanian oil refineries. 'Hail Columbia' and all the crew members, including Lt. Korger, survived the Ploesti mission with no serious injuries. Knowing they could not return to their base at Benghazi, Libya, with their aircraft heavily damaged by German anti aircraft flak guns over their target, the Astra Romano Refinery complex, they decided to try to fly to the island of Cyprus, and crash landed on the British air base at Nicosia, Cyprus, August 1, 1943. 'Hail Columbia' was wrecked and written off at Nicosia, Cyprus, August, 3,1943.
Group
The 98th trained for bombardment missions with B-24 Liberators during the first half of 1942.
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Squadron
The 344th Bombing Squadron was first activated at MacDill Field, Florida as one of the original three squadrons assigned to the 98th Bombardment Group. The 344th soon moved to Barksdale Field, Louisiana, where it began to train as a Consolidated B-24...
B-24 Liberator
The B-24D, 'Hail Columbia', # 41-11825, originally served in the 9th Air Force, the 98th Bomb Group, and the 344th Bombing Squadron. It was, first, the 344th Squadron's CO, Col. John R. Kane's, personal aircraft until Kane became the 98th Bomb Group's...
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Black Sunday - Michael Hill ----- Personal Archives - John S Young Jr |
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Black Sunday - Michael Hill ---- Personal Archives - John S Young Jr |
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Black Sunday - Michael Hill ---- Personal Archives - John S Young Jr |
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10 January 2021 16:30:31 | Kickapoo | Changes to caption, person associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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Personal Archives - John S Young Jr |
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15 December 2020 10:45:24 | Kickapoo | Changes to collection, caption, unit associations, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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John S Young Jr - personal archives |
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Anatomy Of A Disaster - Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg ---- Black Sunday - Michael Hill ---- Into The Fire - Duane Schultz ---- TogetherWeServed.com ---- FindAGrave.com ---- Personal Archives - John S. Young |