UPL 45770

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Lt. Gilbert Hadley's plane, the B-24D he named, Hadley's Harem, serial number 41-24311. - 1943.

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Units

Three airmen of the 389th Bomb Group stand with a B-24 Liberator used as a Flight Assembly Ship. Image via Tim Bivens. Handwritten caption from Bivens: 'My friend remembers it being named "Bucksheesh Benny" that it was used to fly Jack Benny around USA shows. Says it flew in North Africa with Benny and was eventually assigned to 389th as a hack and later as a form-up ship. He thinks it was originally with another group (possibly 376th or 98th).' Handwritten caption on reverse: '389th BG Form-up ship.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Ninth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - Hadley's Harem
  • Unit: 98th Bomb Group 344th Bomb Squadron

Locations

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Berka, al Birkah

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Ploesti The Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943 -- James Dugan & Carroll Stewart

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Removed associations not depicted in the image. Associated content should be added to the AIRCRAFT and/or PERSON records.

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Black Sunday - Michael Hill

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Black Sunday - Michael Hill

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Changed all instances of aircraft name into sentence case to as per best practice for accessibility.;
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Information added. Punctuation errors, spelling. - Kickapoo

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Wording. - Kickapoo

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Black Sunday -- Michael Hill