John K Boyd
Military
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Assigned Aug 1944. 21 Nov 1944, was nursing a bevy of mechanical failures. The crash of Boyd's Boids is a classic in the annals of the 96th. Photogaraphs memorialize the crash as incredible. When one studies the picutres of the flattened and tubular
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Betty Lee Up N Cider Boyd's Bird
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 337th Bomb Squadron
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Sources
Combat Sup; Snetterton Falcons, pg 187, 204-205, 210 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia