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Michael P Urban

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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

42-102468

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

42-102674

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

42-97636

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Unit: 351st Bomb Group 401st Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron

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42-97664

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

Missions

781

Date: 5 January 1945

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

B-17s of the 398th Bomb Group bombing the railyard at Bingen, 29 December 1944. Printed caption on reverse: '57548 AC- With bomb bay doors open, the first of a large formation of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses send their bombs plummeting earthwards on rail installations at Bingen, Germany, as heavy bombers of US Eighth Air Force press home their attack of December 29, 1944. US Air Force Photo.'

769

Date: 29 December 1944

741

Date: 6 December 1944

715

Date: 16 November 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

Date17 Dec 2021 00:35:23

Contributoracbernstein1

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Sources

http://401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=2902

Date27 Sep 2014 18:20:12

ContributorAAM

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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=2902