44-6522 Dirty Duchess ; Snafu
Object Number - UPL 40547 - Lamoine D. Solberg, Staff Sergeant 95th Bomb Group, 412th Squadron
Delivered Hunter 29/8/44; Grenier 15/9/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-H] Horham 17/9/44 HARD LUCK; (also named DIRTY DUCHESS, SNAFU, SWEET JOE); with A.Z. Weisz, force landed A-82 Rouvres AF, France 25/2/45; with C.E. Willis force landed RAF Woodbridge, Sfk 9/3/45; 70m, Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; Sth Plains 28/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/11/45. IT FLIES.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16019686
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner/Waist Gunner/Togglier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
- Date: 2 May 1945
- Official Description: Almost 400 B-17’s drop food supplies in populated areas in the Netherlands, mostly at Schiphol and Alkmaar A/Fs, Vogelenzang, Hilversum, and Utrecht.
- Date: 20 April 1945
- Date: 17 April 1945
- Date: 16 April 1945
- Date: 15 April 1945
Revisions
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log
