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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 19/6/44; Kearney 29/6/44; Dow Fd 11/7/44; Assigned 833BS/486BG [4N-L] Sudbury 28/7/44; transferred 835BS [H8-L]; 78m, Returned to the USA Bradley 7/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 19/11/45. EASY MOVEMENT.
Group
The 486th Bomb Group flew both B-24s and B-17s, swapping from the former aircraft to the latter in late July 1944 after 49 missions. In total the Group flew 292 missions during the war and remarkably the 834th Bomb Squadron lost no aircraft or...
Squadron
Squadron
*Taken from the official web page of the '486th Bomb Group Association' (https://486th.org/BS835/index.htm)*
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Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 486th Bomb Group
