42-37838 Fancy Nancy
Delivered Long Beach 21/9/43; Gt Falls 25/9/43; Assigned 612BS/401BG [SC-F] Deenethorpe 26/10/43; 1
Bremen 26/11/43 with Scribner Dailey, Co-pilot: Alex Stoker, Navigator: John Malone, Bombardier: Capt W. T. Hutson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Flynn, Radio Operator: Arth Hildreth, Ball turret gunner: George Cook, Waist gunner: Chas Hagen, Tail gunner: Chas Sanders (9 Returned to Duty), Waist gunner: Leo Baranik (Killed in Action). Mid-air collision with #42-30317 (388BG); on return crash landed RAF Detling, Kent, UK; sal 2 SAD 9/12/43.
B17 #42-37838 Fancy Nancy crashed near Kimbolton after mission to Gironde. 10 RTD
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- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12190382
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 20323501 / O-801578
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant (RAF)
- Role/Job: Ground Engineer
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- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 52909
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 1, 26 Nov 1943, Bremen, Germany. 0908 hours - Twenty aircraft off okay. Four of the briefed crews didn't manage to get...
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