Michael L Taft
MilitaryB-17F #42-30732 'Pistol Packin Mama' landed short and lost the left landing gear on a local flight and was instructed to attempt a gear up landing at Alconbury. RTD.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group
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Sources
8th AF Losses, www.381st.org/UnitHistory/Data/Roster.aspx / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia