44-6262 Miss Pan Am

Delivered Hunter 17/6/44; Presque Is 28/6/44; Assigned 772BS/463BG Celone 3/7/44; Returned to the USA 1103 BU Morrison 28/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/12/45.

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Units served with

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-5287) of the 463rd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force in flight with open bomb bay doors. Handwritten caption on reverse: '463 BG Gills.'

463rd Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

McIrwin Swinney

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: Air Transport Command 2nd Bomb Group 463rd Bomb Group 772nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Pilot

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Revisions

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Sources

Per Mac's source data

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log