44-6774 Cookie

media-45771.jpeg UPL 45771 B-17G-65-DL #44-6774 "Cookie"
483rd BG - 840th BS - 15th AF

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Object Number - UPL 45771 - B-17G-65-DL #44-6774 "Cookie" 483rd BG - 840th BS - 15th AF

Delivered Lincoln 7/11/44; Grenier 15/12/44; Assigned 840BS/483BG Sterparone 22/12/44; t/o accident with Bob Neeshan 12/4/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 9/1/46. COOKIE.

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Units served with

Seen through a 433rd Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress' strike camera, a 816th Bomb Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5786) nicknamed "Whizzer II" goes down over Nis in Yugoslavia on the 15th of April 1944 in a gout of flame after taking a direct flak hit. There were no survivors. Official caption on image: "(483BG:4M3:2VI) (4:15:1208) (24:21300) ([south-west arrow] 140 [degrees]) (Nis M/Y Yugo) (Ship 111 816 Sq)." Handwritten caption on reverse: '15/4/44. 483BG, 15AF. Nis, Yugoslavia. 42-5786

483rd Bomb Group

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

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Delivered

Lincoln AAF, Nebraska 7 November 1944

Assigned

Sterparone Airfield, Italy 22 December 1944 483BG 840BS 15AF

Revisions

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources

B-17 Flying Fortress Story - Roger Freeman

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

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