42-39765 | American Air Museum

42-39765 Baby Lu III, Miss Manookie

Delivered Long Beach 26/8/43; Scott 25/10/43; Assigned 359BS/303BG Molesworth 11/10/43 as BABY LU III; transferred 612BS/401BG [SC-A] Deenethorpe 14/11/43; transferred 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 8/4/44; (?with Roger Bishop from Keesler 22/2/45?);retUS 4186 BU Tinker 24/7/45; 4100 BU Patterson 1/9/45; 3704 BU Keesler 10/1/46; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/5/46. MISS MANOOKI.

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Units served with

Official emblem of the 303rd Bomb Group approved 7 November 1942.

303rd Bomb Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

Insignia associated with the 359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force.

359th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

The insignia of the 612th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group.

612th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

Joseph Roscoe Amber

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 36703821
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: Togglier, Waist Gunner

Earl Cain Gibson

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 15086940
Highest Rank: Master Sergeant
Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner / Flight Engineer

Cecil Leo Graf

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 19188506
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Morey Byham Jeffery

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 35018153 / O-685629
Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Role/Job: Navigator

Paul J King

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 11069174 /O-694381
Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
Role/Job: Navigator

Places

Bomber crews from the 401st Bomb Group look over P-51 Mustang, FT-T, serial number 43-12172, of the 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, at Deenethorpe airfield. One of their B-17 Flying Fortresses is in the background. Printed caption on reverse of print: '...401st Bomb Group look over a North American P-51 Mustang at an 8th Air Force base in England, 27 December 1943.'

Deenethorpe

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Benefield

Aerial photograph of the east end of Molesworth airfield looking north, the control tower and two T2 hangars are right of the vertical runway, 5 October 1945. Photograph taken by No. 541 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/889. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Molesworth

Site type: Airfield

Missions

308A

Date: 19 April 1944

8th Air Force 269

Date: 20 March 1944

A battle damaged waist gun position on a B-17 Flying Fortress.

8th Air Force 266

Date: 19 March 1944

8th Air Force 257

Date: 13 March 1944

8th Air Force 244

Date: 2 March 1944

Revisions

Date1 Oct 2021 11:28:49

Contributoracbernstein1

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https://b17flyingfortress.de/en/?s=42-39765

Date1 Oct 2021 11:17:01

Contributoracbernstein1

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http://401bg.org/Main/History/Aircraft/Details.aspx?ID=39765

Date27 Sep 2014 18:40:50

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log