44-8271 Butch
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Nose art of a 34th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortess (serial number 44-8271) nicknamed "Butch".
Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Delivered Dallas 27 July 1944; Cheyenne 6 August 1944; Grenier 25 August 1944; Assigned 391BS/34BG Mendlesham 27 August 1944. Among other pilots, 1st Lt Harold E. Dwyer flew on it on 5 missions : on 31 March 1945; 4 April 1945; 14 April 1945; 18 April 1945 and on the 5 May 1945 Chowhound mission to drop food to the Dutch population. Returned to the USA Bradley 21 June 1945; South Plains 23 June 1945; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman, Arizona 2 december 1945.
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- Date: 5 April 1945
- Date: 4 April 1945
- Date: 3 April 1945
- Date: 31 March 1945
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Associated with Pilot, Lt Harold E. Dwyer
Dwyer crew data at http://valortovictory.tripod.com/crews/Dwyer.htm