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media-17318.jpeg UPL 17318 Lt. Otis G. Lancaster 490th BG

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Object Number - UPL 17318 - Lt. Otis G. Lancaster 490th BG

Distinguished Flying Cross for Mission on 18 April1945 to Pilsen Czechoslovakia

Flew Revival Mission to Linz, Austria in the Carolina Moon to return POW's. Also flew the Carolina Moon back to the states in Operation Home Run.

He died January 31st 2000

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Units served with

The insignia of the 490th Bomb Group.

490th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

The nose art of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 43-37907) nicknamed "Carolina Moon" of the 490th Bomb Group. Image by Captain Arnold Delmonico, photographic officer 490th Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: 'Carolina Moon 78 ops.'

43-37907

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Carolina Moon
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group 851st Bomb Squadron

43-38096

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group

Events

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Born

Hamilton, Mississippi 8 April 1923

Enlisted

Enlisted

Revisions

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490thBG Bombs Away June 2000

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DFC citation

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Spelled out DFC added mission info

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List of planes and pilots flying mission on 3 June 1945 and List of planes and pilots flying Operation Home Run on 6 July 1945.

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Headquarters 3rd Air Division
Office of the Commanding General
APO 559
General Orders 1027
22 May 1945

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self

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