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Source:
www.fold3.com
Production-block:
B-17G-30-BO 42-31732 to 42-31931
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 381st Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 533rd Bomb Squadron
- RCL: VP-O
Fate:
Missions: 73+
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History of
B-17 42-31761 / Rotherhithe’s Revenge
Delivered Denver 11/12/43; Gt Falls 17/12/43; Denver 20/12/43; Kearney 30/12/43; RAF Nutts Corner 14/1/44; Assigned 533BS/381BG [VP-O] Ridgewell; 73+m Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 9/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 13/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45. ROTHERHITHE’S REVENGE.
Last updated: 6. September 2018
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12. June 2020 access_time 3:04
My granddad, Col. George Shackley, piloted Rotherhithe’s Revenge. It couldn’t have been his first Fort, but I think it may have been his last before the end of the compaign. He ended up as Lt Col, and ExO of the 533rd Sq, 381st BG come the finish. Went on to serve in Korea and Vietnam. Buried in Arlington alongside his estranged wife, 2004.
12. June 2020 access_time 8:28
Thank you for sharing your grandfather’s story!
13. July 2021 access_time 11:42
My Dad, Mel Hecker, completed his 25th Mission in Rotherhite’s Revenge in March 1944 after leading the 381st to the Berlin area … he then went on to the 445th BG as an Operations Officer prior to beginning the Command and General Staff School in KS in August, 1944.
01. August 2021 access_time 19:32
I was born in Rotherhithe 1938, bombed every night from two years old and evacuated, we loved that B17 and the crew, we will never forget the men like your Dad who risked there lives for us