42-31662 Fancy Nancy IV
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 2214 - Ground personnel of the 401st Bomb Group stand with a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31662) nicknamed "Fancy Nancy IV" after fixing her...
Delivered Denver 2/12/43; Kearney 17/12/43; Romulus 6/1/44; Kearney 7/1/44; Memphis 9/1/44; Presque Is 10/1/44; Assigned 612BS/401BG [SC-B] Deenethorpe 31/1/44; 134m crash landed Polebrook 22/4/44, Salvaged 1 SAD Troston. FANCY NANCY IV.
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- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 52981
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 19, 3 Feb 1944, Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Over 1,100 fighters and bombers participated in the attack on the great port and...
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- Object Number: Document 52982
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 20, 4 Feb 1944, Frankfurt, Germany. 31 aircraft off on operations by 0901 hours. All but one of the operational aircraft...
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- Object Number: Document 52983
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 21, 5 Feb 1944, Chateauroux, France. The results of bombing Chateauroux Airfield were excellent. Pictures of 401st...
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- Object Number: Document 53001
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 23, 11 Feb 1944, Frankfurt, Germany. Captain Donald McCree led the Group to Frankfurt, the site of important aircraft...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53004
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 26, 22 Feb 1944, Oschersleben, Germany. 32 aircraft were airborne by 0935. 29 operational aircraft had returned by 1755...
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- Object Number: Document 53484
- Description: 301st Bomb Group, Mission No. 246, 10 Apr 1945, Oranienburg, Germany. On this mission the three squadrons of the 401st made up the 94th Combat Wing "B...
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- Object Number: Document 53512
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 242, 5 Apr 1945, Ingolstadt, Germany. Briefing times continued to be scheduled very early-- at 0215 hours this day. With...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53529
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 240, 31 Mar 1945, Weimar, Germany. Briefing took place at the early hour of 0200. The aircraft were each loaded with six...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53530
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 239, 30 Mar 1945, Bremen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0720 hours for this mission. Aircraft were loaded with twelve...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53562
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 234, 22 Mar 1945, Barmingholten. Briefing took place at 0400 hours, with Lead and Low Squadron ships being loaded with...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53565
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 231, 18 Mar 1945, Berlin, Germany. Briefing took place at 0315 hours. The ships were loaded with twelve 100 pound GP's...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53566
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 230, 17 Mar 1945, Molbis, Germany. The Group was briefed at 0400 hours, and all aircraft were airborne by 0824. Flying...
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- Object Number: Document 53597
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 228, 14 Mar 1945, Lohne, Germany. Briefing took place at 0745 hours. All aircraft were loaded with 34 100 pound GP's...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53598
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 227, 12 March 1945, Swinemunde, Germany. Briefing took place at 0440 hours, pilots being briefed for low visibility take...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53600
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 226, 11 Mar 1945, Bremen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0630 hours. Aircraft were loaded with 42 M-47 IB's. All...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53602
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 224, 8 Mar 1945, Essen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0800 hours. The aircraft were loaded with twelve 500 pound GP's...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53603
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 223, 7 Mar 1945, Siegen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0430 hours. The aircraft were loaded with twelve 500 pound GP's...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53619
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 221, 3 Mar 1945, Chemnitz, Germany.
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53620
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 219, 1 Mar 1945, Heilbronn, Germany. Briefing took place at 0710 hours, and all operational aircraft were airborne by...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53621
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 220, 2 Mar 1945, Chemnitz, Germany. The Group was briefed for a long mission at the early hour of 0300. By 0707 hours...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53661
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 218, 28 Feb 1945, Soest, Germany. The 401st provided the 94th Combat Wing "B" Group on this mission. As the target was...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53663
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 216, 26 Feb 1945, Berlin, Germany. Briefing took place at 0500 hours, and by 0841 hours all 20 aircraft were off on the...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53704
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 215, 25 Feb 1945, Munich, Berlin. Briefing took place at 0330 hours. Aircraft loading was six 500 pound RDX's plus 6 M17...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53788
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 211, 21 Feb 1945, Nurnberg, Germany. Group briefing took place at 0345 hours. Pilots were warned of obstructions and...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53806
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 207, 14 Feb 1945, Dresden, Germany. Briefing took place at 0400 hours, as the mission was to be a long one. Pilots were...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53811
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 202, 1Feb 1945, Ludwigshaven, Germany. Briefing took place at 0515 hours. Loading was twelve 500 pound GP's and two...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53812
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 201, 29 Jan 1945, Bad Kreuznach, Germany During the night a total of 16 RAF Halifax bombers landed at Deenethorpe and...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53813
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 200, 28 Jan 1945, Cologne, Germany. Briefing took place at 0500 hours, and all operational aircraft were airborne by...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53867
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 195, 13 Jan 1945, Maximiliansau, Germany. Briefing took place at 0530 hours. Loading was six 1,000 pound bombs and 2...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53869
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 194, 10 Jan 1945, Euskirchen, Germany. Briefing took place at 0600 hours. Deenethorpe had been snowed in the previous...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53870
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 193, 7 Jan 1945, Bitburg, Germany. Briefing took place at 0500 hours. By 0921 all aircraft were airborne, although four...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53880
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 190, 3 Jan 1945, Hermulheim, Germany. Briefing took place at 0430 hours, and all 39 aircraft were off by 0822 "Good...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53881
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 189, 1 Jan 1945, Kassel, Germany. Briefing took place at 0450 hours, and by 0834 hours all operational aircraft were...