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23 January 1945

Mission Details

NEUSS

Description: FIGHTER SWEEPS

NEUSS

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

NEUSS

Description: RAIL BRIDGE

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Aircraft

43-38062

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Pleasure Bent
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
The nose art of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 43-38067) nicknamed "Big Chief Illinwek" of the 95th Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '338067.'

43-38067

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Joyride : Big Chief Illiniwek
  • Unit: 412th Bomb Squadron 95th Bomb Group
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 43-38288) of the 95th Bomb Group, that has crash-landed at Horham. Image by Roland E "Lefty" Nairn of the 95th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'I took this at Horham, Eng A.B., 7th Mar 1945. R.E. "Lefty" Nairn, 336 Sqdn, 95 BG.'

43-38288

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Goin' My Way : V for Victory
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron

43-38469

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron

43-38501

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Sweet Chariot
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron

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Sources

Lee Cunningham, 8th Air Force missions research database / Stan Bishop's 'Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces', the Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces and the work of Roger Freeman including the 'Mighty Eighth War Diary'.