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IWM catalogue record

This contains information written on the back of the original print and some of it may be inaccurate.

A B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-18276) nicknamed "Pickled Dilly" lines up for take off with fellow aircraft of the 322nd Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '322BG Andrews Field, 'Pickled-Dilly'.'

Connections

Units

  • 322nd Bomb Group

    322nd Bomb Group

    Group
    The 322nd Bombardment Squadron (Medium) was activated on 19-Jun-1942 at MacDill Field, Florida with B-26B Marauder aircraft. In late September 1942 the unit moved to Drane Field, Florida. The Ground echelon sailed for the UK aboard the Queen Elizabeth...

Aircraft

Locations

  • Andrews Field

    Military site : airfield
    The base was known as Great Saling when construction – by US Army engineers – began in 1942 but was renamed Andrews Field in honour of the memory of Gen. Frank M. Andrews, who was killed when the B-24 he was travelling in crash-landed in Iceland on 3...

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Collection name
Roger Freeman Collection
Object number
FRE 1187

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
08 September 2014 15:27:51 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

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