42-107062 Worry Bird/Miss Bea Haven
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FRE 6468
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-10706) nicknamed "Miss Bea Havin'" of the 388th Bomb Group flies over countryside. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Miss Bea Havin 2107062 M, 562 BS.'
Roger Freeman Collection
B-17 Flying Fortress Story - Roger Freeman
page 226
Delivered Denver 9/2/44; Rapid City 2/3/44; Dow Fd 3/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 25/4/44; no ops, transferred 562BS/388BG Knettishall 29/4/44 WORRY BIRD; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 29/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 29/11/45. LITTLE JOE JR aka MISS BEA HAVEN.
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Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Delivered |
Denver, CO, USA | 9 February 1944 | |
Assigned |
Knettishall, Diss IP22 2TH, UK | 29 April 1944 | 388 BG 562 BS |
Other First 388th BG Combat Mission |
14000 Caen, France | 23 May 1944 | |
Other Final 388th BG Combat Mission |
86899 Landsberg am Lech, Germany | 21 April 1945 | Flew 90+ Combat Missions |
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