42-37789 The Loose Goose
Object Number - UPL 28294
Delivered Denver 29/8/43; Scott 16/9/43; Assigned 303BG Molesworth 18/9/43; 1 BAD 23/10/43; transferred 544BS/384BG [SU-H] Grafton Underwood 2/11/43; t/o on training flight with Lt Col Alf Nuttall, Co-pilot: Alf Cole, Navigator: Harry Gantert, Radio Operator: Chas Anderson 22/4/44 crash landed base (4 Returned to Duty); sal 25/4/44.
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-703977
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 545th Bomb Squadron Headquarters (384th Bomb Group)
- Service Numbers: O-404094
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot / Group Operations Officer / Squadron Commander
Places
Missions
- Date: 20 March 1944
- Date: 19 March 1944
- Date: 18 March 1944
![A bomber crew of the 381st Bomb Group return to base after a mission in their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31761) nicknamed "Rotherhithe's Revenge". Image stamped on reverse: 'Sunday Pictorial for Censor.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 10 Mar 1944.' [stamp] and '310673.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'BACK FROM BERLIN. Scenes this week at a Bomber station of the U.S. Air Force , somewhere in England. The crew of the Flying Fortress "Rotherhithe's Revenge", a British subscribed ship](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-380068.jpg.webp?itok=3h76SN3N)
- Date: 8 March 1944
- Date: 6 March 1944
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Sources
AAIR 44-04-24-523 / Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database