43-38922

Delivered Lincoln 11/10/44; Grenier 22/10/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-D] Horham 24/10/44; battle damaged Nurnberg 20/2/45 with F. Beard; force landed A-87 Charleroi, Bel; 7m, sal 7/3/45.

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Units served with

Staff Sergeant Rich, a top turret gunner of the 95th Bomb Group with his B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-97232 ) nicknamed "Sandy's Refueling Boys", August 1944. Image via Albert Keeler, 95th Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: 'S/Sgt Rich top turret gunner 412 BS.'

412th Bomb Squadron

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

95th Bomb Group

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

Places

Horham

Site type: Airfield

Missions

836

Date: 20 February 1945

835

Date: 19 February 1945

834

Date: 17 February 1945

8AF 830

Date: 14 February 1945
Official Description:

Ground crew attend to a crashed P-51 Mustang nicknamed "Baby Jo" of the 357th Fighter Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: ' Lt Noel Breen ran out of fuel 9 Feb '45.'

824

Date: 9 February 1945

Revisions

Date8 Dec 2023 23:43:07

Contributoracbernstein1

Changes

Sources

https://95thbgdb.com/aircraft/293

Date27 Sep 2014 18:41:34

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log