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42-37838 Fancy Nancy

Delivered Long Beach 21/9/43; Gt Falls 25/9/43; Assigned 612BS/401BG [SC-F] Deenethorpe 26/10/43; 1

Bremen 26/11/43 with Scribner Dailey, Co-pilot: Alex Stoker, Navigator: John Malone, Bombardier: Capt W. T. Hutson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Flynn, Radio Operator: Arth Hildreth, Ball turret gunner: George Cook, Waist gunner: Chas Hagen, Tail gunner: Chas Sanders (9 Returned to Duty), Waist gunner: Leo Baranik (Killed in Action). Mid-air collision with #42-30317 (388BG); on return crash landed RAF Detling, Kent, UK; sal 2 SAD 9/12/43.

B17 #42-37838 Fancy Nancy crashed near Kimbolton after mission to Gironde. 10 RTD

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

The insignia of the 612th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group.

612th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

Leo Baranik

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 32529866
Highest Rank: Sergeant
Role/Job: Waist Gunner

George P Cook

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Highest Rank: Sergeant
Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

A bomber crew of the 401st Bomb Group with their B-17 Flying Fortress. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'L to R: Front row: M/Sgt Victor Magnuson (C/C), Sgt William Hemmila (Asst). Back row: Cpl Howard McKinney, Scribner Daily (P), Sgt Herbert Westentaf.'

Scribner Cobb Dailey

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 13052760 / O-801490
Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
Role/Job: Pilot

William B Flynn

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 16046687
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

Charles Thorwald Hagen

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 37315748
Highest Rank: First Sergeant
Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Places

Bomber crews from the 401st Bomb Group look over P-51 Mustang, FT-T, serial number 43-12172, of the 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, at Deenethorpe airfield. One of their B-17 Flying Fortresses is in the background. Printed caption on reverse of print: '...401st Bomb Group look over a North American P-51 Mustang at an 8th Air Force base in England, 27 December 1943.'

Deenethorpe

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Benefield

Aerial photograph of Kimbolton airfield looking west, the bomb dump and technical site with a T2 hangar is on the left, 10 August 1945. Photograph taken by No. 541 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/635. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Kimbolton

Site type: Airfield

Missions

VIII Bomber Command 138

Date: 26 November 1943

Revisions

Date19 Jan 2020 22:06:19

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Added 2 "#" in the A/C “Description” for clarity.

Date19 Jan 2020 22:04:39

Contributorjmoore43

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Added a space in the A/C “Description” for clarity.

Date17 Jun 2015 14:53:00

Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter

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Associated people from MACR 16193 - http://www.fold3.com/image/30087196/

Date27 Sep 2014 18:40:45

ContributorAAM

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log