43-37926 Lotta Stern
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A bomber crew of the 490th Bomb Group with a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number ) nicknamed "Lotta Stern". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Picture taken February 1945. Crew of "Gotham" C-Charlie. 851st Squadron, 490th Bomb Group 8th AF. 1st row kneeling left to right: Robert Showalter, ball turret gunner, Norman Borgman, tail gunner, Milton Sanford, radio operator, Gordon Handrell, flight engineer, Russell March, waist gunner. 2nd row standing, left to right: Chas Molloy, navigator, John Smith, co-pilot, Gerald Leland, pilot, Donald Nate, bombardier.'
Roger Freeman Collection
This is my uncle
Delivered Cheyenne 6/6/44; Kearney 18/6/44; Grenier 6/7/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP- ] Thorpe Abbotts 2/7/44; transferred 490BG Eye 7/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 13/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 16/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 16/12/45. LOTTA STERN.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 851st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33654954
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Role/Job: Airplane Armorer-Gunner, Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Brome
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Delivered |
Cheyenne, WY | 6 June 1944 | |
Assigned |
Thorpe Abbotts Airfield, UK | 2 July 1944 | 100BG 351BS |
Assigned |
Eye Airfield, UK | 7 July 1944 | 490BG |
Other Returned to the US |
Windsor Locks, CT | 13 July 1944 | Bradley AAF |
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Sources
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_bombers/b17_16.html
B-17 Flying Fortress Story - Roger Freeman