44-8145 Ah's Availble, Tailor Maid
Note misspelled 'Availble' Joe Harlick Collection
Name corrected
Object Number - UPL 50768 - 44-8145 "Ah's Availble", 91st Bomb Group. Nose art by Tony Starcer. Note misspelled 'Availble'
Delivered Dallas 27/6/44; Langley 21/7/44; Grenier 17/8/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-C] Bassingbourn 15/9/44 TAILOR MADE; 324BS [DF-C]; transferred 303BG Molesworth 4/12/44; 367BS/306BG Thurleigh 24/5/45; `24+m` Salvaged 9AF Germany 26/7/46. AH'S AVAILBLE.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
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Links to 91st BG added. Production block added and spelling of aircraft names corrected (as per Ray Bowden book 'Plane names/fancy noses)
