40-2049 Skipper

media-37418.jpeg UPL 37418 Salvaging 40-2049 after it ran off the runway at Bellows Field, TH during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.

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Object Number - UPL 37418 - Salvaging 40-2049 after it ran off the runway at Bellows Field, TH during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.

Delivered 38RS/19BG [aircraft 39] Salt Lake City 15-Jan-41; transferred 9BS/7BG, with F.R. Dent crash landed Selfridge Field 24-Feb-41; Albuquerque 4-Dec-41; Pearl Harbor 7-Dec-41 with:



P Lt Bob Richards; CP Leon Humiston

Aviation Cadet F.B. Morris, Aviation Cadet George Gammans

AG S/Sgt Joe Angelini; AG S/Sgt Erwin Casebolt

AG S/Sgt Melvin Zajic; S/Sgt Lawrence Velarde

Pvt Vernon Tomlinson;



Aircraft was heavily damaged by Japanese fighters on arrival at Bellows Field, salvaged for spare parts. SKIPPER.

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Delivered

Salt Lake City, UT, USA 15 January 1941

Crashed

Selfridge Field 24 February 1941

Assigned

Albuquerque, NM, USA 4 December 1941

Assigned

Pearl Harbor, HI 96706, USA 7 December 1941

Revisions

Date
ContributorChris Brame
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Date
ContributorEmily
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Removed block number from nickname

Date
ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 25-Jan-2105. Added Block Number, appended block number to nickname entry; Edited description, converted dates to military-style signification; formatted crew list.

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ContributorAAM
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

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