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B-17 Flying Fortress
B-17F 41-24504 "Sad Sack" of the 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group (Coded DF-D). Caption states that it is being posed for its last photograph before being removed from the 91st BG, 20 March 1944.
B-17F 41-24504 "Sad Sack" of the 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group (Coded DF-D). The picture says it is flying a practice mission on 10 July 1944, Europe.
Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-D] Bangor 30/8/42; Bassingbourn 26/9/42; battle damaged Ludwigshafen 22/3/43 with Chas Cliburn, who brought her back to crash landed RAF Lt Horwood, (10 Returned to Duty); 42m Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 15/3/44; en route from from UK to Dallas, US, 3/5/44 with Bob Lewis, Co-pilot: Bill Gates, Navigator: Wes Cofer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Howe, Radio Operator: Bob Knap, pass:- Capt Gerald Carverinj, Lts Emmett Gilbert (inj), Hugh Midgett, Bob Connor, Jack Compf, Dan Teschworth (11 Returned to Duty); power failure caused force landed two miles W of Kraffi, Ivory Coast 3/5/44; repaired and Returned to the USA for war bond tour. TAURUS aka THE SAD SACK.
Group
The 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated at Harding Field, Louisiana on 15-April-1942 and went to MacDill Field, Florida for the first phase of training from 16-May-1942 to 25-June-1942. The Group was then assigned to 2nd Air Force at Walla...
Squadron
Home of the Memphis Belle
Military | Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Killed in Action (KIA) 23 Jan 1943 died of wounds on mission to Lorient, France to bomb the Koramin Submarine Base, in B-17 41-24504 piloted by Lieutenant Fisher.
23 January 1943
The port area and U-Boat pens at Lorient, France are the primary target for this mission. 305th Bombardment Group is selected as the lead group, but condensation on the bombsight of the lead aircraft in the Group prevents the 305BG from bombing Lorient...
Military site : airfield
Now home to a museum all about the aifield and its USAAF residents (http://www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk/) , Bassingbourn opened in 1938 as part of the RAF's pre-war expansion programme. The RAF continued to use it until late in 1942 when its long...
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| Manufactured | Seattle, WA, USA | 1942 |
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Built at Boeing. |
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| Delivered | Washington, USA | 1942 |
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Delivered to USAAF. |
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| Assigned | Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth SG8, UK | 30 August 1942 |
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Assigned 324BS, 91BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Crashed | Horwood, Bideford EX39, UK | 22 March 1943 |
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Crash landed RAF Horwood due to battle damage, pilot Lt Charles Cliburn. |
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| Crashed | Côte d'Ivoire | 3 May 1944 |
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Force landed two miles W of Kraffi, Ivory Coast due to power failure 3-May-44. |
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| Returned ZI | United States | July 1944 |
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Repaired and returned to US for war bond tour. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 26 April 2017 02:54:24 | CastleBren | Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, description, unit associations, person associations, place associations, mission associations and media associations |
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91st Bomb Group records |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 25 April 2017 20:17:10 | Al_Skiff | Changes to events |
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https://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/406/edit - description. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 25 April 2017 20:16:23 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, manufacturer, nicknames, markings, description, events, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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https://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/406/edit - description. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:02 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log |
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