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A C-47 Skytrain (serial number 43-8386) of the 27th Transport Group and a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-29780) nicknamed "Silver Queen" used as a hack by General Curtiss Le May. Double yellow bar on the tail of the C-47 marked the aircraft as a member of air service command, while the insignia on the nose is that of 86th Transport Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'C47 43-8386. Heston- 38D Silver Queen.'
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Units
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Transport
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Silver Queen
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron
Locations
- Site type: Airfield
Revisions
Changed caption based on info provided by MikeO
Page 70, The Mighty Eighth in Color, Roger Freeman.
References
Gooney Birds & Ferry Tales, The 27th Air Transport Group in WW2 by Jon A. Maguire, Schiffer Publishing 1998
Gooney Bird Driver, by Jon A Maguire, Elm Grove Publishing, 2019
The Mighty Eighth, by Roger Freeman, Doubleday 1970