42-97111
214 Squadron RAF
Object Number - UPL 31055 - B-17G-40-BO #42-97111 RAF Serial #HB774 214 Squadron RAF
Delivered Gt Falls 2/2/44; Dorval 20/2/44; Assigned RAF [HB-774]; 214 Sq BU-G RCM Sculthorpe, Oulton, Nfk; Struck Off Charge 11/3/47.
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Events
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Delivered |
Great Falls, MT, USA | 2 February 1944 | Delivered to the USAAF |
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Delivered |
Dorval, QC, Canada | 20 February 1944 | Delivered to the RAF |
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Other Arrived in the UK |
Prestwick, UK | 29 February 1944 | HB774 - Boeing B17G-40-BO constructed by Boeing Aircraft Co at Seattle, WA. It departed for the UK on 23 February 1944 via the Azores, where it arrived on 29 February 1944 en-route to Scottish Aviation Ltd at Prestwick. It was gutted and refitted with H2S, 'Mandrel', 'Piperjack' and 'Jostle' in addition to being repainted in Bomber Command colours (it arrived from the USA in natural metal scheme |
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Other Combat Mission |
Trappes, France | 2 June 1944 | Roland Williams recalls: "On the night of June 2nd 1944, three of our B17's - those of Sqd/Ldr Bill Day, Johnny Cassan and George Wright - took part in the attack on the marshalling yards of Trappes, about forty miles south-west of Paris. I read in the Daily Express some years later that this was the raid that opened the second front. We were flying in F Freddie and as we approached the target, a huge orange flare was dropped on our tail, so George decided to move off track and fly a parallel course. Immediately alongside us appeared a Halifax in the full glare of the flare, exchanging fire with a Messerschmidt 210. The Halifax went down with engines on fire and the Me. following with the rear gunner firing back, but we saw no chutes from the Halifax. From then on we saw many aircraft shot down, with Fred, our navigator, logging their positions until he had no space to log more. The official report the next morning quoted sixteen of our aircraft were lost. We had been attacked by a Me. 110 and of course, George had taken evasive action by the usual corkscrewing, but we sustained a few holes from bullets which miraculously passed diagonally between the two waist gunners Bob Williams and Don Robson." |
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Other Combat Mission |
Kiel, Germany | 23 July 1944 | |
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Other Landed with Damage |
02190 Juvincourt-et-Damary, France | 10 November 1944 | On 9/10 November 1944 it landed at Juvincourt in Belgium, when the port outer engine went u/s. This was repaired by 151 Repair unit by 2 February 1945 and finally on 23 March 1945 it left for 214 Squadron at Oulton but was apparently used by 1699 Flt for training purposes. |
