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Frank R Arndt

Military

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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

The insignia of the 612th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group.

612th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

Carl H Blomquist

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 401st Bomb Group
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant

Aircraft

42-102398

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Dynamite John
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

43-37790

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Lady Luck
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

43-38733

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Ill Be Seeing You
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

43-38810

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Mrs Knobby
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

44-6506

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Satisfaction Guaranteed
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Ground crew of the 25th Bomb Group spray foam onto the crashed Mosquito (serial number NS748) at Watton, 19 April 1945. Official caption printed on image: '(G-AD-[illegible])(19-4-45)(MOS.748CRASH)(REST.)'

8th Air Force 961

Date: 19 April 1945

8th Air Force 957

Date: 17 April 1945

8th Air Force 954

Date: 16 April 1945

8th Air Force 948

Date: 14 April 1945

8th Air Force 941

Date: 11 April 1945

Places

Bomber crews from the 401st Bomb Group look over P-51 Mustang, FT-T, serial number 43-12172, of the 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, at Deenethorpe airfield. One of their B-17 Flying Fortresses is in the background. Printed caption on reverse of print: '...401st Bomb Group look over a North American P-51 Mustang at an 8th Air Force base in England, 27 December 1943.'

Deenethorpe

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Benefield

Revisions

Date21 Nov 2021 22:46:20

Contributoracbernstein1

Sources

http://401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1498

Date27 Sep 2014 18:10:09

ContributorAAM

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1498