B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 44-6148 / Smashing Thru

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General
Manufacturer: Douglas
Production-Block: , B-17G-45-DL: 44-6126 to 44-6250
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 381st Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 534th Bomb Squadron
RCL GD-M
Fate: , Crashed on take off
(13 July 1944)
Missions: 11+
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History of
B-17 44-6148 / Smashing Thru

Delivered Tulsa 14/5/44; Kearney 24/5/44; Dow Fd 1/6/44; Assigned: 534BS/381BG [GD-M] Ridgewell 16/6/44; {11+m} crash: takeoff for Munich 13/7/44 Pilot: John Houston, Bill Scruggs (2RTD); Germany. ld Sullivan, Jim Welmsley, Bob Benward, Don Murray, Lloyd Jackson, Ken Spatz, Bill Cusick (7KIA); aircraft lost two engines during assembly and came down in railway cut at Gt Yeldham, near Halstead, Ex, UK; Salvaged. SMASHING THRU.

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