44-6816
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FRE 8332
452nd Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortresses (on left: 'E', serial number 44-6816) drop bombs on their target below. On reverse: Passed By US Army Examiner [Stamp].
Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Delivered Hunter 18/11/44; Dow Fd 28/11/44; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-B] Chelveston 1/12/44; transferred 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 2/12/44; caught in propwash of another aircraft on assembly for Hamburg with Willis Du Mond, Co-pilot: Carl Jones, Bombardier: Ernie Matthews, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dan Cursons, Radio Operator: Carl Hartman, Ball turret gunner: Roy Frost (6 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Dan O’Connor, Waist gunner: ? ,Tail gunner: John Stewart (3 Returned to Duty), crash landed Hilgay, five miles N of Littleport, UK, 30/3/45; Salvaged 24/4/45.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 728th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32819014
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 728th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 01301457
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 728th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17020540
- Highest Rank: Sergeant (RAF)
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 728th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38405001
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 728th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: T-006007
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Aircraft crash site