Aaron Shapiro

Military

After landing from a local test flight on 28 Jan 1944, a fire broke out in the bomb bay in B-17G #42-37772. A/c was abandoned and was destroyed in fire. RTD.

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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

Aircraft

42-37772

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Flyin Jenny
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum Membership List, July 2000, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces,

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