42-31920 Able Mabel

Delivered Denver 3/1/44; Kearney 28/1/44; Assigned 447BG Rattlesden 9/2/44; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-G] Horham; 89m, on night navigation training mission 6/11/44 left u/c collapsed on landing with Warren Helm, Co-pilot: Maurice Londer, Navigator: Paul Trylko, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Cleary, Radio Operator: George Koch, passenger on board - Don Longworth, salvaged 9/11/44. ABLE MABEL.

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B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 305th Bomb Group fly in formation.
  • Date: 4 August 1944
A mission log for Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst of the 91st Bomb Group, 3 August 1944 -15 December 1944. Image via Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst, 91st Bomb Group.
  • Date: 3 August 1944
  • Date: 2 August 1944

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Crashed

6 November 1944 On night navigation training mission 6/11/44 left u/c collapsed on landing.

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AAM DB Entry.

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name correction: James Robert (Jim) Cleary, not Clerry

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correct spelling: James Robert (Jim) Cleary (not Clerry)

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log