The aircraft shown is not 42-95024 but does show many of the crew members on board on the day that she crashed 5th November 1944



Was added to the USAAF on 24th February 1944 and arrived in the UK 12th April 1944.



She was assigned to the 409th Bombardment Group, 93rd Bomb Group at USAAF Hardwick, Norfolk.



On the 5th November 1944 she was one of 366 2nd Division Liberators that set out on a mission to Karlsruhe Railway Marshalling Yards in Germany, No B-24's were lost in the mission itself but four aircraft crashed on their return.



Gypsy Queen was reported to have one engine feather when it crashed, presumably having lost this due to flank damage. In 1973 a spokesman at the farm where she crashed at Church Farm described seeing her approach from the North with the crew baling out close to the river Waveney, some at extremely low altitude. He said the B-24 appeared to be attempting an emergency landing, but the nose of the aircraft dug into the ground and it broke up. He recalled the fuselage broke in half, the nose was wrecked and there was a fire with ammunition exploding.



The Police reports states only two crew were killed in the crash but 93rd Bomb Group records indicate a third 409th Squadron crewman was killed baling out.



Crashed at Church Farm Shipmeadow, a few miles short of Hardwick Nov. 5, 1944. 3 killed.

1st LT Leo F Baumann, 2nd LT Eddie Dunne and Staff SGT Leo Henry KIA



Gypsy Queen was designated Cat E-2 (Crashed and Burned) and salvaged by a team under Lt Ayers from the 3rd Strategic Air Depot from 6th November 1944.