42-37716
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FRE 5869
B-17 Flying Fortresses including (serial number 42-37716) of the 96th Bomb Group on the 338th Bomb Squadron's dispersal area at Snetterton Heath in August 1944.
Image via Mark Brown, AFA.
Written on slide casing: 'BX dispersals Snetterton.' Roger Freeman Collection
Image via Mark Brown, AFA.
Written on slide casing: 'BX dispersals Snetterton.' Roger Freeman Collection
Aircraft identified by Roger Freeman in Mighty Eighth in Colour, p 127
Delivered Tulsa 10/8/43; Scott 9/10/43; Assigned 338BS/96BG [BX-P] Snetterton 14/10/43; transferred 95BG Horham 15/10/43; retUS 121 BU Bradley 12/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 10/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 20/12/45.
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Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Station 138