42-5341 Scarlet Harlot : Vat 69 : Vicious Virgin
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Delivered Denver 16/12/42; West Palm Beach 9/1/43; Assigned 427BS/303BG [GH-Q] Molesworth 7/2/43; severe battle damaged Bernberg 20/2/44 with Bob Hullar, Co-pilot: Capt Dick Dubell, Navigator: Elmer Brown, Bombardier: Jim McCormick, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: , Radio Operator: , Ball turret gunner: , Waist gunner: , Waist gunner: Merlin Miller, t/obs-Lt E. Greenwood (10 Returned to Duty); repaired and transferred 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 7/4/44; Returned to the USA Tinker 6/1/45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45. SCARLET HARLOT aka VAT 69 aka VICIOUS VIRGIN.
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- Date: 2 October 1943
- Date: 27 September 1943
- Date: 27 August 1943
- Date: 24 August 1943
- Date: 17 August 1943
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Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Delivered |
16 December 1942 | Delivered Denver AAF 16-Dec-42; | |
Assigned |
7 February 1943 | Assigned 427BS, 303BG, 8AF USAAF. | |
Other Suffered Severe Battle Damage |
20 February 1944 | The ship suffered rather severe flak damage, severing the fuel pump lines somewhere around Bernberg. The aircraft aborted the sortie and returned to base. The crew were unharmed. | |
Other Delivered to BAD1 |
7 April 1944 | Upon being repaired, the aircraft was transferred to BAD 1 at Burtonwood. | |
Manufactured |
Built at Boeing. |