FRE 1335

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A flight of B-26 Marauders of the 387th Bomb Group flies over a smoking Nazi airdrome at Leeuwarden, Holland. Image stamped on reverse: 'Confidential until re-classified by censor.' [stamp], 'Reviewed and passed as censored Mar 1944.' [stamp] and '45094.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'Pro-HQ-44-308 USAAF Official Photo distributed thru OWI. A Ninth Air Force Marauder station, England- Six Marauders of the Ninth Air Force are shown here winging home after pounding the Nazi airdrome at Leeuwarden, Holland recently. [a censor has omitted the following sentence] <<The force of approximately 100 Marauders loosed over 70 tons of bombs.>> A preliminary assessment indicates that the B-26s hit 11 buildings, 26 aircraft shelters, one large hangar, a fuel dump, and the concrete runways and landing field. The flight of Marauders, having bombed, are closing bomb bay doors.' Handwritten caption on reverse: '131577 AN-Y, 131594 FW-F.' The aircraft in the top right hand corner is not AN-Y as the handwritten caption suggests, but it's 131679 FW-K, also an aircraft of the 387th BG.

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Units

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

Aircraft

A flight of B-26 Marauders of the 387th Bomb Group flies over a smoking Nazi airdrome at Leeuwarden, Holland. Image stamped on reverse: 'Confidential until re-classified by censor.' [stamp], 'Reviewed and passed as censored Mar 1944.' [stamp] and '45094.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'Pro-HQ-44-308 USAAF Official Photo distributed thru OWI. A Ninth Air Force Marauder station, England- Six Marauders of the Ninth Air Force are shown here winging home after pounding the Nazi airdrome at Leeuwarde
  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Nicknames: Hangover Hut
  • Unit: 387th Bomb Group

Revisions

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ContributorPete63
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Sources

Could the handwritten text read 131694 FW-F..? '694' is in fact the aircraft in the picture and it belonged to the Sanders crew. Source: B26 dot com website.

Date:
ContributorPete63
ChangesChanges to caption
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I studied this photograph and could not recognize the second aircraft in the picture as being AN-Y" (of the 386th BG). In fact this other aircraft is FW-K, also of the 387th BG. This is in accordance with the mission details provided by a relative of a crew member on FW-F and the info found on www dot B26 dot com backs this up as well. FW-K was aircraft 41-31679 at that time.

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ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
Sources

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection