Assigned: 12 April 1944 - 8th AF / 3rd AD / 4th CBW / 94th BG / 331st BS - (RAF Bury St Edmunds)

Crash landing: Saturday, 7 October 1944 (Combat damage / fighters)

Florennes / Juziane A/D (A-78) - Belgium

Pilot: 1Lt Roy E Kennedy

3 POW, 6 RTD (MACR 9557)

Co-pilot, navigator and tail gunner bailed out early; pilot was able to land aircraft in allied territory.

POW's Reported by Fliegerhorst-Kommandantur A (o) 30/III Koelleda

Ground accident (class 4): Saturday, 14 April 1945 @ 1530 hrs (Mechanical failure)

RAF Bury St Edmunds (hardstand 34) - England

Ass't Crew Chief: Sgt Lionel P Renaud

8th AF mission: 948 / 94th BG mission: 310 (Bordeaux, France - Tactical)

Aircraft was being preflighted for next day's mission.

Struck parked B-17G-65-VE 44-8416.

While engines were being run-up, aircraft brakes failed; aircraft jumped over chocks, running over GMC Oil Service truck and striking the left outer wing panel of 44-8415.

#1 & 2 engines, propellers, plexiglass nose, underside of fuselage from nose turret to station 3 damaged.

AAF accident report: 45-4-14-704

Condemned / stricken: 15 April 1945 / 22 May 1945