42-5740 Monticello
(YB-40) Delivered Tulsa 7/11/42; Biggs 18/3/43; Montbrook 31/3/43; Presque Is 30/4/43; Assigned 327BS/92BG [UX-E] Alconbury 4/5/43; Returned to the USA Gander 2/11/43; 3010 BU Williams 26/9/44; 3036 BU Yuma 4/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 18/5/45. MONTICELLO.
The YB-40 were products of the Douglas Modification Center in Tulsa, OK. Although there two batches of 13 each and 12 each, there were no production blocks known to have been assigned to YB-40 program.
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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: 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron 327th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37264777
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner/Waist Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: PIAAF / Presque Is
Missions
- Date: 28 June 1943
- Date: 22 June 1943
- Date: 13 June 1943
- Date: 11 June 1943