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42-32316 Cowtown Avenger

media-55162.png UPL 55162 B-25C-10-NA #42-32316 "Cowtown Avenger" Code: 6D
340th BG - 486th BS - 12th AF

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Object Number - UPL 55162 - B-25C-10-NA #42-32316 "Cowtown Avenger" Code: 6D 340th BG - 486th BS - 12th AF

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Units served with

340th Bomb Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Ninth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

486th Bomb Squadron

Air Force: Ninth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

Places

Catania

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Catania–Fontanarossa Airport

Comiso Airfield

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Comiso Airport

Foggia

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Foggia "Gino Lisa" Airport

A B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-7740) nicknamed “Big Blow Out” of the 450th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force that has crash landed at San Pancrazio, Italy, 30 January 44.

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Other 85th Combat Mission	Pontecorvo, Italy	25 January 1944	Today's mission was the 85th for 6D (316). It is a B-25C, is one of the original ships brought from the States, and has more missions than any other plane in the Squadron. Major (then Capt.) Hackney piloted her from the States, other members of the crew being Lt. O'Clock, Lt. Moody, Sgts. Villard, Arnold, Kramer, and Falter. She received modification at Bizerte, has 417 hours and 15 minutes to her credit, and has had five engines. One engine was shot out Jan 14th on the raid on Pontecorvo bridge, when Lt. Glade brought her home with one rudder unusable. On this mission the radio gunner bailed out. She is crewed by T/Sgt. Max I. Hart, S/Sgt. Dellavan Guthridge, and Sgt. Robert Jones. They say she has never gone to the Service Group for major repairs
Other 100th Combat Mission	Civita Castellana (Fabrica) Landing Ground, Italy	24 February 1944	Today's mission was the one-hundredth for 6D, “Cowtown Avenger.” Lt. Milloway and S/Sgt. Max Hart have been eager to run up the record for her, and she's the first in the Group to reach the century mark

Event

Location

Date

Description

Other

85th Combat Mission

Pontecorvo, Italy

25 January 1944

Today's mission was the 85th for 6D (316). It is a B-25C, is one of the original ships brought from the States, and has more missions than any other plane in the Squadron. Major (then Capt.) Hackney piloted her from the States, other members of the crew being Lt. O'Clock, Lt. Moody, Sgts. Villard, Arnold, Kramer, and Falter. She received modification at Bizerte, has 417 hours and 15 minutes to her credit, and has had five engines. One engine was shot out Jan 14th on the raid on Pontecorvo bridge, when Lt. Glade brought her home with one rudder unusable. On this mission the radio gunner bailed out. She is crewed by T/Sgt. Max I. Hart, S/Sgt. Dellavan Guthridge, and Sgt. Robert Jones. They say she has never gone to the Service Group for major repairs

Other

100th Combat Mission

Civita Castellana (Fabrica) Landing Ground, Italy

24 February 1944

Today's mission was the one-hundredth for 6D, “Cowtown Avenger.” Lt. Milloway and S/Sgt. Max Hart have been eager to run up the record for her, and she's the first in the Group to reach the century mark