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The nose art of a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Randie Lou" of the 100th Bomb Group.
This contains information written on the back of the original print and some of it may be inaccurate.
The nose art of a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Randie Lou" of the 385th Bomb Group.
Handwritten caption on reverse: '385.'
Group
"The Bloody Hundredth", so-called because of a reputation for losing a high number aircraft and crews, flew B-17s from Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk. Their losses were not the highest of any Eighth Air Force Group but on several occasions the Group lost many...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 19/11/43; Kearney 2/12/43; Presque Is 10/12/43; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-B] Rougham 23/12/43 FRIDAY THE 13TH; transferred 350BS/100BG [LN-S] Thorpe Abbotts 24/12/43; 349BS [XR- ]; ran out of gas on Ruhland mission 21 June 1944 with Lt...
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 31 January 2016 12:36:35 | mpfaley | Changes to caption, unit associations, person associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
| Sources | ||
Michael P. Faley- 100th BG Historian |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 02 February 2015 10:00:04 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection |
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