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Delivered Cheyenne 24/8/44; Hunter 4/9/44; Grenier 15/9/44; Assigned 546BS/384BG [BK-K] Grafton Underwood 27/9/44; crashed on take off for Cologne 10/1/45 with ?; Salvaged.

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A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5725) nicknamed "This is IT!" of the 381st Bomb Group opens her bomb bay doors during a mission.

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  • Date: 30 December 1944

764

  • Date: 27 December 1944
The wreck of a B-24 Liberator of the 93rd Bomb Group that crashed on take off near Aldeburgh, 19 December 1944. Image via Glenn Tessmer, 93rd Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '19/12/44 Aldeburgh, Norfolk, crash on t/o.' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Crash site. Taken about 1 hour after crash. Mission was then scrubbed. Just off end of south runway. Lead aircraft 93BG at Hardwick, Eng. Probably Dec 15-23, 1944. Note weather! The exact date of the crash can be verified in 2nd A.D/ news letters. I can

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  • Date: 19 December 1944
Eleven men in Air Force uniform posed in two rows in front of a military airplane. Six men standing to the rear and five men sitting in front. Some of the men are wearing cold-weather flying gear.

754

  • Date: 18 December 1944

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log