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Howard E Anderson

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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 615th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group.

615th Bomb Squadron

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

Aircraft

42-102398

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

42-102468

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Farmer's Daughter
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron

42-31730

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Morning Star, Tail End Charlie
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron

The nose art of a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Mary Alice" of the 401st Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '401. Unknown. C2. '

42-31983

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Mary Alice
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron

42-32012

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Shark Tooth
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

Missions

896

Date: 19 March 1945
Official Description:

A B-24 Liberator of the 467th Bomb Group flies over Berlin during a mission. 18 March 1945. Handwritten caption on reverse: '18/3/45 Berlin.'

894

Date: 18 March 1945

892

Date: 17 March 1945

883

Date: 12 March 1945

881

Date: 11 March 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

Date7 Dec 2021 02:01:15

Contributoracbernstein1

ChangesChanges to role, unit associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations

Sources

http://401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=2492

Date27 Sep 2014 18:13:14

ContributorAAM

ChangesAAM ingest

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=2492