William L Reneau
MilitaryOn landing on 26 Jan 1944 the left landing of B-17G #42-3271 'Nine Little Yanks and a Jerk' fled and A/C skidded off the runway. RTD.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Nine Little Yanks and a Jerk
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 351st Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
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Contributorjmoore43
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Capitalized the words in the "Role/job" field to aid readability.
Added an association to “Thorpe Abbotts”, the home base of the 100th BG.
Contributorjmoore43
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Added an association to the 100th BG, the parent group of the 349th, 350th, 351st & 418th Bomb Squadrons.
Corrected a typo in the "Summary biography" - "off" was misspelled.
ContributorAAM
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8th AF Losses / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia