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Lyle E Andler

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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

42-107113

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Miss Aldaflak Section 8
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th 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

43-38160

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Day and Night
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron

43-38330

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Gambler's Choice
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

43-38541

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

Missions

8th Air Force 962

Date: 20 April 1945

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 951

Date: 15 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

Date6 Dec 2021 22:14:37

Contributoracbernstein1

Sources

http://401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=0941

Date27 Sep 2014 18:19:26

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=941