44-8158 Bobby sox
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FRE 5818
Major Byron Trent of the 94th Bomb Group with a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8158) nicknamed "Bobby Sox". Image via Byron Trent. Written on slide casing: 'Bobby Sox, Major Trent.'
Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Delivered Dallas 24//6/44; Langley 27/7/44; Dow Fd 17/8/44; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 18/4/44; transferred 850BS/490BG Debach 20/8/44; 332BS/94BG [XM-Q] Rougham 5/45; Returned to the USA 593 BU Charleston 28/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 27/12/45. BOBBY SOX. Nose art by Master Sergeant Jay Dee Cowan (490th BG / 851st BS)
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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: 490th Bomb Group 851st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18083741
- Highest Rank: Master Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ground Crew
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 4th Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Ground crew
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 7th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12137606
- Highest Rank: Sergeant (RAF)
- Role/Job: Ground crew
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Rougham
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: RAF Mendlesham
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Sources
Son of associated ground crew and nose artist Jay Cowan and documents from the 490th historian