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A B-24 Liberator # 41-23809 'Painted Virgin' 'You Cawn't Miss It' 'Checker Board' used as a flight assembly ship by the 448th Bomb Group.

IWM catalogue record

This contains information written on the back of the original print and some of it may be inaccurate.

A B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-23809) used as a flight assembly ship by the 448th Bomb Group.

Connections

Units

  • 8th Air Force

    8th Air Force

    Command

  • 448th Bomb Group

    448th Bomb Group

    Group
    The 448th Bomb Group was a B-24 Liberator Group that flew out of Seething, Norfolk. The Group flew their first mission on the 22nd December 1943 and over the next eighteen months the air crews flew 262 missions over occupied Europe. These bombing...

Aircraft

Missions

  • Operation Tidal Wave

    1 August 1943
    Operation TIDAL WAVE. B24D Liberators attack the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania. The bombers flew low to avoid radar detection and dropped time delayed bombs. Out of the 177 B24Ds that took part in the raid 167 managed to attack their targets. 57...

Locations

  • Seething

    Military site : airfield
    Built during 1942-43 as an Eighth Air Force bomber base, Seething had three concrete runways, 51 hardstandings of both loop and 'frying-pan’ types, and two T2 hangars, one on each side of the airfield. It was home to the 448th Bomb Group, equipped with...

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Collection name
Roger Freeman Collection
Object number
FRE 1781

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
15 April 2015 17:39:37 Al_Skiff Changes to caption, unit associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations
Sources

Roger Freeman Photo
Date Contributor Update
08 September 2014 15:27:55 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

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