EAST Command

19 September 1944

Mission Details

SZOLNOK

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Notes: 100 B-17s escorted by 61 P-51s take-off from bases in the USSR to hit this target and then continue on to bases in Italy.

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Aircraft

B-17 Flying Fortresses (serial number 43-38521), (DI-G, serial number 42-31974), (DI-V, serial number 42-97407) and (serial number 42-102972) of the 390th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '390BG.'

42-97407

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The As-Te-Risk
  • Unit: 1st Strategic Air Depot 390th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron 570th Bomb Squadron

42-97683

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 301st Bomb Group 352nd Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron

42-97844

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

43-37513

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Anna
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 569th Bomb Squadron

43-37801

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Reluctant Dragon
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th 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'.