44-6818
Object Number - UPL 60955 - 44-6818
Delivered Hunter 20/11/44; Grenier 6/12/44; Assigned 493BG Debach 12/12/44; battle damaged Cottbus 15/2/45 with ?; force landed continent, Salvaged 12/3/45. From Joe Baugher's USAAF database. Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 20Nov44. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom) 6th Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, Long Beach Field, CA 20Nov44. Ferried Long Beach - Palm Springs, CA - Midland, TX - Jackson, MS - Savannah, GA 21/28Nov44. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Base), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 28Nov44. Ferried Savannah - Manchester, NH 6Dec44. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 6Dec44. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route departing Grenier Field 11Dec44. Eighth Air Force17Dec44. 862nd Bomb Squadron, 493rd Bomb Group, Debach (Station 152), Suffolk Dec44. Battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling yards at Cottbus, Germany 15Feb45. Force landed on the continent. Condemned salvage 15Feb45. Salvaged 12Mar45.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 493rd Bomb Group 860th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-824981
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
- Date: 15 February 1945
Revisions
aircraft details updated from Joe Baugher's USAAF database and marking detail added based on photo evidence. photo from fans of B17 facebook group (used with permission). Production block detail added
