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B-17 Flying Fortress
B-17G-5-BO #42-3518 "Lady Lillian" Code: Z 388th BG - 561st BS
Delivered Denver 15/7/43; Rapid City 10/8/43; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 9/9/43; transferred RCM 803BS Sculthorpe /44; damaged by PB4Y explosion on APH mission 12-8-44; Salvaged 14/11/44.
Provided navigational assistance on Aphrodite mission to V1 missile site Wizernes, France. 4-8-44.
Mosquito
Chase camera A/C on Anvil mission to V3 long range cannon battery, Mimoyecques, France. Drone A/C explosion flipped NS569 up several hundred feet, knocking out the port engine with debris coming through the nose injuring the observer Lt Daniel J...
B-24 Liberator
Assigned USAAF, B-24J #42-110007, re-designated as PBY-1 when assigned to USN, went on to be assigned to USN Special Air Unit No. 1 as Bu #32271. Utilized as remote controlled explosive laden flying bomb on Anvil* project. USN provides A/C and command...
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran...
Squadron
Squadron
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Retired from the USAF with the rank of Major
Military | Captain | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
newly assigned May 1944
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 388th Bomb Group
The person with this name and birth/death dates buring at Fort Bliss National Cemetery is listed as "Master Sergeant - US Army" on his headstone. Boozer is wearing Captain's bars in his photo. This birth and death date may well be for the wrong ...
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Flight Engineer - Top Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Ball Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Lieutenant | Navigator / Observer | 25th Bomb Group
Served with 8th AF USAAF September 1943 - May 1944.
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Attacked by fighters on the return from a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-31240 'Shack Job' crashed near Soltau-Bucholz, GR after the crew baled out SE of Hamburg, GR. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Military site : airfield
Originally named Winfarthing when the site was allocated to the Eighth Air Force in 1942, it was renamed Fersfield when built for the Eighth Air Force 1943-44. USAAF and US Navy projects 'Aphrodite' 'Batty' and 'Anvil' (attempts to develop and use...
Military site : airfield
Knettishall was built to Class A standard for an American Bomb Group that would be bringing up to forty heavy bombers with them in three or four Squadrons. The 388th Bomb Group, which stayed at Knettishall for their entire service in the ETO, flew B-17...
Military site : airfield
Built for the RAF in 1942-43, and used by the RAF 1943-44. The Eighth Air Force's 803rd Bomb Squadron (P) were a Radio Countermeasures unit lodging here in 1944. The base was used by both the RAF and US forces in the post-war period.
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Delivered | Denver, CO, USA | 15 July 1943 |
| Aphrodite mission | Wizernes, France | 4 August 1944 |
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Provided navigational assistance on Aphrodite mission to V1 missile site Wizernes, France. 4-8-44. Pilot Lt Bruce M Muirhead. |
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| Colateral damage [Aphrodite] | Blythburgh, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19, UK | 12 August 1944 |
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Damaged by PB4Y [42-110007] explosion on Aphrodite mission. |
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| Crashed | Fersfield, Diss, Norfolk IP22, UK | 8 November 1944 |
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Crashed Belly Landing RAF Fersfield/Sta 140, Cat 4 damage, pilot Lt Thomas H Barton, 8-11-44. |
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| Salvaged | Knettishall, Diss, Suffolk IP22, UK | 14 November 1944 |
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Salvaged |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 09 December 2017 03:57:11 | 466thHistorian | Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, events and place associations |
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B-17 Flying Fortress Story - Roger Freeman |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 29 December 2015 16:47:11 | Al_Skiff | Changes to mission associations |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 24 December 2015 11:30:00 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, manufacturer, description, events, unit associations, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:44 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log |
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