42-40001 Paris Express

media-37614.jpeg UPL 37614 B-17G-10-VE #42-40001 "Paris Express"
401st BG - 613th BS
Appears to have ended her days as a war weary group hack aircraft

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Object Number - UPL 37614 - B-17G-10-VE #42-40001 "Paris Express" 401st BG - 613th BS Appears to have ended her days as a war weary group hack aircraft

Delivered Long Beach 29/10/43; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-L] Deenethorpe 5/1/44; transferred ATC 30/5/45; retUS 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 11/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 19/6/45. PARIS EXPRESS.

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

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

Places

Missions

8AF 830

  • Date: 14 February 1945
  • Official Description:
The wreck of a B-24 Liberator of the 93rd Bomb Group that crashed on take off near Aldeburgh, 19 December 1944. Image via Glenn Tessmer, 93rd Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '19/12/44 Aldeburgh, Norfolk, crash on t/o.' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Crash site. Taken about 1 hour after crash. Mission was then scrubbed. Just off end of south runway. Lead aircraft 93BG at Hardwick, Eng. Probably Dec 15-23, 1944. Note weather! The exact date of the crash can be verified in 2nd A.D/ news letters. I can

756

  • Date: 19 December 1944

725

  • Date: 26 November 1944

Events

Event Location Date Description

Assigned

Deenethorpe Airfield, UK 5 January 1944

Delivered

Long Beach, California

Revisions

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http://401bg.org/Main/History/Aircraft/Details.aspx?ID=40001

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AAM image and synopsis.

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FREEMAN, Roger, The B-17 Flying Fortress Story

AAM sort 42-400**

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http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_bombers/b17_16.html

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

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