42-39846 Widdle Twinkle
Object Number - UPL 52583 - AC # 42-39846, 'Widdle Tinkle', 614th BS, 401st BG
Delivered Long Beach 18/9/43; Scott 27/10/43; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-M] Deenethorpe 3/11/43; transferred 487BG Lavenham 15/7/44; then to 860BS/493BG Debach, on local flight 16/8/44 with Capt Wesley Love, Co-pilot: Charles Boyce, Navigator: Fred Hughes, Bombardier: Harry Trumbo, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Gittins, Radio Operator: Maurice Spiegle, Ball turret gunner: John West, Waist gunner: Howard Clayton,Tail gunner: Stan Wajda (9 Returned to Duty); on third landing aircraft went down on belly skidding to a stop; Salvaged 16/8/44. WIDDLE TWINKLE.
Aircraft was probably being used for B-17 transition training with the 493rd BG.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineer, Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Benefield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Lavenham/Alpheton Airfield
Missions
- Date: 25 February 1944
- Date: 6 February 1944
- Date: 5 February 1944
- Date: 30 January 1944
- Date: 5 December 1943
Related media
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 52910
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No 2, 1 Dec 1943, Solingen, Germany. The Group flew the low position in the 1st Combat Wing, and this was the third wing...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 52934
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 3, 5 Dec 1943, Paris, France. Aircraft 42-39825 crashed on take-off into the village of Deenethorpe. It was believed a...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 52935
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 4, 11 Dec 1943, Emden, Germany. 1521 hours - All aircraft down except 42-31098 (IW-B - "Penny's Thunderhead") which...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 52980
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 18, 30 Jan 1944, Brunswick, Germany. All aircraft returned by 1547 except # 856, shot down over the target. Lt. Col...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 52983
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 21, 5 Feb 1944, Chateauroux, France. The results of bombing Chateauroux Airfield were excellent. Pictures of 401st...
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53138
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No.22, 6 Feb 1944, Caen. Colonel Bowman led the Group on a mission originally scheduled to attack a target at Dijon, France...
