42-5905 Just AG
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Object Number - UPL 28299
Delivered Long Beach 26/4/43; Sioux City 7/5/43; Smoky Hill 9/6/43; Dow Fd 30/6/43; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 3/7/43; detailed Solignen, 30/11/43 with Paul Kelly, Co-pilot: John Corzette, Navigator: John Wiley, Bombardier: Marion Wiles, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Theo Lambert, Radio Operator: Edwin Bishop, Ball turret gunner: Merrick Castilie, Waist gunner: Eldridge Sautter, Waist gunner: Sterling Crawford, Tail gunner: Andrew Jenkins (10 Returned to Duty) crash landed on wrong runway at Polebrook on return through pilot error. Salvaged. JUST AG.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 39538486
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot / Squadron Commander
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
- Date: 28 May 1944
- Date: 27 May 1944
- Date: 30 November 1943
- Date: 19 November 1943
- Date: 5 November 1943
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Delivered |
Long Beach, CA, USA | 26 April 1943 | |
|
Assigned |
Knettishall, Diss IP22 2TH, UK | 3 July 1943 | 388 BG 561 BS |
|
Other First 388th BG Combat Mission |
Oschersleben, Germany | 28 July 1943 | |
|
Crashed |
Polebrook, Peterborough PE8 5LN, UK | 30 November 1943 | Crash Landed. |
Revisions
Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid clarity.
Corrected name of waist gunner Eldridge Sautter, instead Eldridge Sauter.
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