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Francis W Anthony

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A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

The insignia of the 615th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group.

615th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-102468

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Farmer's Daughter
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron

42-107113

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Miss Aldaflak Section 8
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron

43-37859

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Jeanne
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron

43-38125

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Mary Makers
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron

Damaged B-17 Flying Fortresses including (serial number 44-6146) of the 401st Bomb Group, and of the 486th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'IN-R, 401BG.' A veteran has handwritten on reverse: 'Winter of 1944. This plane's bombardier was my best friend in high school. We joined the aviation cadets together in fall of 1942. Plane is from the 486th Bomb Group. It was struck in the rear by another plane in formation and tail gunner fell to his death over Germany. The Germans buried him and sent ph

44-6146

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Little Cheezer
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron

Missions

584

Date: 27 August 1944

562

Date: 18 August 1944

8th Air Force 556

Date: 16 August 1944

552

Date: 14 August 1944

548

Date: 13 August 1944

Places

Bomber crews from the 401st Bomb Group look over P-51 Mustang, FT-T, serial number 43-12172, of the 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, at Deenethorpe airfield. One of their B-17 Flying Fortresses is in the background. Printed caption on reverse of print: '...401st Bomb Group look over a North American P-51 Mustang at an 8th Air Force base in England, 27 December 1943.'

Deenethorpe

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Benefield

Revisions

Date6 Dec 2021 21:37:22

Contributoracbernstein1

Changes

Sources

http://401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=3000

Date27 Sep 2014 18:09:51

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=3000