Fred Adatto

Military

Shot up by severe flak damage during the bomb run to V-sites in FR on 13 Feb 1944 in B-24H #42-7558 'Lilian Ann'. With hole in the main fuel tamk and the two engines on the left wing out of action, the a/c returned and crash landed near Cover, Kent. RTD.

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A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.

445th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-7558

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Lillian Ann
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron

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Birsic, SO#279 06 Oct 43 Sioux City, IA to Lincoln, Neb, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia