42-29828 Short Stride : Loma Lee : TS
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384th BG
Object Number - UPL 55876 - B-17F-70-BO 42-29828 LOMA LEE 384th BG
Delivered Denver 23/2/43; Stillwater 8/3/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned Grafton Underwood, 17/4/43, 413BS/96BG, SHORT STRIDE; transferred 14/7/43, Grafton Underwood, 545BS/384BG [JD-Q], LOMA LEE. Returned to the USA 5/6/44; Tinker 26/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/12/45.
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Units served with
![The insignia of the 384th Bomb Group.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-395075.jpg?itok=Z2H16PVo)
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
![The insignia of the 413th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-395039.jpg?itok=P7vQ8gFT)
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
![](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-25779.jpeg?itok=E5y2kpR2)
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
![The insignia of the 96th Bomb Group.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-395035.jpg?itok=01faXuTd)
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
![](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-28082.jpeg?itok=mm_Zx9Wj)
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-741973
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
![Ten men in Air Force uniform posed in two rows in front of an airplane. Six men standing to the rear and four men kneeling in front. Some of the men are wearing cold weather flying gear. There are large canvas bags on the ground in front of the men.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/2023-10/20160405192536-18ffb9fc-me.png?itok=sNjlixE1)
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-665291
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
![Ten men in Air Force uniform posed in two rows in front of an airplane. Four men standing to the rear and six men kneeling in front.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/2023-10/20111118124814-d02148e7-me.jpg?itok=jxEHNnRF)
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-793805
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Places
![Aerial photograph of Grafton Underwood airfield looking north east, Geddington village is on the left, 22 April 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC309. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/eh/eh-258.jpg?itok=i-QQOssr)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
![](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-37694.jpeg?itok=eoWe48OZ)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: PIAAF / Presque Is
![B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 96th Bomb Group at Snetterton Heath. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'BX dispersals Snetterton.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-387762.jpg?itok=6qmmc7q1)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Station 138
Missions
![Airmen and ground crew of the 448th Bomb Group carefully transfer a flak casualty through the waist gun window of a B-17 Flying Fortress. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-11-2-448)(26-3-44)(Flak Casualty).' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Col Patterson.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-380616.jpg?itok=QjieD1uB)
- Date: 26 March 1944
![A battle damaged waist gun position on a B-17 Flying Fortress.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-456032.jpg?itok=VMRxyBB1)
- Date: 19 March 1944
![](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-34055.jpeg?itok=Ee4BJFva)
- Date: 2 March 1944
![](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-14556.jpeg?itok=Y7fnypyy)
- Date: 28 February 1944
![](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-13393.jpeg?itok=-5IbPhjX)
- Date: 25 February 1944
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Sources
FLYING FORTRESS 1936 1945,
2017 and Feb, 2022.
Smith, Poole, Zhou & Marchese
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