44-6464 Prop Wash Hare's Breath

Delivered Kearney 15/8/44; Grenier 6/9/44; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-H] Deenethorpe 23/9/44; on take off for Ulm with Ed Reinhart, suffered electrical fault, caught fire, crash landed RAF Bitteswell 4/3/45; Salvaged 5/3/45. PROP WASH aka HARE’s BREATH.

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Donald Ramone Kent

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator/Gunner

Charles W Utter

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-389151
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

J T Youmans

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Togglier

Places

Missions

854

  • Date: 28 February 1945

803

  • Date: 21 January 1945

778

  • Date: 3 January 1945

Revisions

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Contributoracbernstein1
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Sources

http://401bg.org/Main/History/Aircraft/Details.aspx?ID=6464

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ContributorAAM
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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log