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The wreckage of a P-51 Mustang of the 357th Fighter Group following a crash landing in a front garden. Handwritten caption on reverse: '9 Feb 1945.'
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Original caption : The wreckage of a P-51 Mustang of the 357th Fighter Group following a crash landing in a front garden. * * * * * * This is the wreckage of 44-14884 flown by Lt Noel M. BREEN. Freeman's "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" has the same photo and this caption : "Orbiting the field after return from the 9 February escort, one 357FG Mustang ran out of fuel. Lt Noel Breen managed to crash-land, ending up in a farmyard with the tail of his broken fighter resting against the house (M. Olmsted)." Handwritten caption on reverse: '9 Feb 1945.'

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Aircraft

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.'

44-14884

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Baby Jo
  • Unit: 357th Fighter Group 364th Fighter Squadron

Mission

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.'

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  • Date: 9 February 1945

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Sources

Research on aircraft and pilot.
Little friends website : http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/357thfg.php?action=list_records&recs=50&…
Accident report
Freeman's "The Mighty Eighth War Diary"

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Sources

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection