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Lewis L Allen

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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

42-102674

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Packawalup III
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 94th Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron

42-31485

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Old Ironsides
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron

Ground personnel of the 401st Bomb Group stand with a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31662) nicknamed "Fancy Nancy IV" after fixing her engines. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Another famous Fort and her crew.'

42-31662

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Fancy Nancy IV
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th 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

Factory fresh B-17s

42-97664

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Aw Come On
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron

Missions

774

Date: 1 January 1945

A B-17 Flying Fortress (EP-E, serial number 42-31767) nicknamed "Our Gal Sal" of the 100th Bomb Group at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Written on slide casing: 'Our Gal Sal EP-E, 231767 at Mount Farm.'

772

Date: 31 December 1944

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5725) nicknamed "This is IT!" of the 381st Bomb Group opens her bomb bay doors during a mission.

770

Date: 30 December 1944

Captain Misch of the 487th Bomb Group in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Misch.'

8th Air Force 760

Date: 24 December 1944

The wreck of a B-24 Liberator of the 93rd Bomb Group that crashed on take off near Aldeburgh, 19 December 1944. Image via Glenn Tessmer, 93rd Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '19/12/44 Aldeburgh, Norfolk, crash on t/o.' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Crash site. Taken about 1 hour after crash. Mission was then scrubbed. Just off end of south runway. Lead aircraft 93BG at Hardwick, Eng. Probably Dec 15-23, 1944. Note weather! The exact date of the crash can be verified in 2nd A.D/ news letters. I can

756

Date: 19 December 1944

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

Date8 Dec 2021 02:08:23

Contributoracbernstein1

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

Sources

http://401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=3080

Date27 Sep 2014 18:18:53

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=3080