42-30819 Shack Bunny
Flying Fortress 1936 -1945 for configuration details.
AAM entry at 42-30819 for nickname.
Phil Marchese Oct. 01 2021
Object Number - UPL 52282 - Boeing, Seattle B-17F-BO, SHACK BUNNY. Possibly F-BO 42-30819 which would have been similarly configured and has been associated with the nickname...
Delivered Cheyenne 4/8/43; Gr Isle 12/8/43; Assigned 551BS/385BG [HR-U] Gt Ashfield 25/8/43 SHACK BUNNY; Salvaged non-battle damaged 29/5/45 LULU BELLE.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 551st Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 388th Bomb Group 96th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 551st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38052935
- Role/Job: Pilot / C.O. / Air Exec
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Revisions
See AAM ingest at Douglas B-17G 42-3551 lost 13 Dec 1943 and 28 Dec date in photo legend.
Deleted:
(given in 8AF book by Gregory Pons as Missing in Action Kiel 13/12/43 with nine POWS and one Killed in Action)*
* Osborne does not show a MACR number and none is given in the Pons citation. Moreover the photo negative legend date reads 21-12-43.
Phil Marchese 02 Oct 2021
Noted in change as footnote:
Osborne entry;
Photo legend.
Phil Marchese 02 Oct. 2021
FLYING FORTRESS 1936 - 1945; OCT 01, 2021
