Assigned: 12 April 1944 - 8th AF / 3rd AD / 4th CBW / 94th BG / 331st BS - (RAF Bury St Edmunds) 
Crash landing: Saturday, 7 October 1944 (Combat damage / fighters) 
Florennes / Juziane A/D (A-78) - Belgium 
Pilot: 1Lt Roy E Kennedy, 3 POW, 6 RTD (MACR 9557) 
Co-pilot, navigator and tail gunner bailed out early; pilot was able to land aircraft in allied territory. POW's Reported by Fliegerhorst-Kommandantur A (o) 30/III Koelleda 
Ground accident (class 4): Saturday, 14 April 1945 @ 1530 hrs (Mechanical failure). RAF Bury St Edmunds (hardstand 34) - England 
Ass't Crew Chief: Sgt Lionel P Renaud 
8th AF mission: 948 / 94th BG mission: 310 (Bordeaux, France - Tactical) 
Aircraft was being preflighted for next day's mission. 
Struck parked B-17G-65-VE #44-8416. 
While engines were being run-up, aircraft brakes failed; aircraft jumped over chocks, running over GMC Oil Service truck and striking the left outer wing panel of #44-8415.  #1 & 2 engines, propellers, plexiglass nose, underside of fuselage from nose turret to station 3 damaged.  AAF accident report: 45-4-14-704. Condemned / stricken: 15 April 1945 / 22 May 1945