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A B-24 Liberator (serial number 44-40210) of the 491st Bomb Group crashing in Holland on 18 September 1944 during a supply mission as part of Operation Market Garden. Handwritten caption on reverse: '18-9-44 B, 292 Extra.' Second Handwritten caption on reverse: '292/RF. 491BG got shot down, crash landing in Holland, 9/18/44.' Pilot was Capt. James Kerwin Hunter. Sole survivor was left waist gunner S/Sgt Frank DiPalma. Plane slid into farmhouse and burned. Crash site is between Udenhout and Biezenmortel, at 51 36' 53" N, 5 10' 19" E.

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Units

A Pathfinder B-24 Liberator (V2-P+, serial number 42-51691) of the 491st Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '491 BG supplying troops at Arnhem, Sept 1944.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 491st Bomb Group 854th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-814244
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier, Nose Gunner
A B-24 Liberator of the 491st Bomb Group after crash landing in Holland, 18 September 1944. Handwritten caption on reverse: '18-9-44 B, 292 Extra.' Second Handwritten caption on reverse: '292/RF. 491BG got shot down, crash landing in Holland. 9/18/44.'
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 491st Bomb Group 854th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12030363
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 491st Bomb Group 854th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34588582
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 491st Bomb Group 854th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39303415 / O-754955
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 491st Bomb Group 854th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 20706934 / O-799024
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

A B-24 Liberator of the 491st Bomb Group after crash landing in Holland, 18 September 1944. Handwritten caption on reverse: '18-9-44 B, 292 Extra.' Second Handwritten caption on reverse: '292/RF. 491BG got shot down, crash landing in Holland. 9/18/44.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Ill Be Seeing You
  • Unit: 491st Bomb Group 854th Bomb Squadron

Mission

B-24 Liberators of the 392nd Bomb Group fly low over countryside. First handwritten caption on reverse: 'Holland or Rhine re supply 392 BG.' Second handwritten caption on reverse: '18/9/44. 392BG B/24 dropping parachute supplies. Low level in Holland 9/17/44.'
  • Date: 18 September 1944

Revisions

Date:
ContributorEmily
ChangesChanges to unit associations, person associations, aircraft associations and mission associations
Sources

Associated aircraft identified by Bill Hunter, relative of James Kerwin Hunter, people on board the aircraft when this photo was taken, bomb squadron and mission

Date:
ContributorRobertTX
ChangesChanges to caption
Sources

Robert Baumgardner, Austin, TX

Date:
ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
Sources

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection