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Source:
www.fold3.com
Production-block:
B-17G-90-BO 43-38474 to 43-38673
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 384th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 545th Bomb Squadron
- 546th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: JD-F, BK-D
Missions: 45
History of
B-17 43-38588 / Eileen’s Kindergarten
Delivered Cheyenne 22/8/44; Lincoln 1/9/44; Grenier 11/9/44; Ass 545BS/384BG [JD-F] Grafton Underwood 1/10/44; 546BS [BK-D]; trans with group to Istres for mapping duties, Sal 9AF Germany 10/12/45.
Last updated: 4. January 2019
B-17 43-38588 / Eileen’s Kindergarten Details
Original image description:
The official designation for the troop-ferrying operations carried on between Istres Le Tube airport near Marseilles, and Casablanca in North Africa, was “The Green Project”. It was conducted by two heavy bombardment groups under the supervision of the 40th Bomb Wing of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. In the first month and a half, after the first troop-laden Boeing B-17 took off from Istres airport, over 20,000 passengers were carried. These included civilians as well as combat veterans from southern France. Here, redeployed vets are waving to pilot, F/O Richard S. Humphries of Watertown, N.Y., pilot of the Boeing B-17 Eileen’s Kindergarten, as they leave the plane after landing at Cazes Airfield in Casablanca, Morocco.
18. July 2020 access_time 19:16
Wrong! That is my father Cpt. Homer C. Seavey in the cockpit of that aircraft, my father named the aircraft after my mother, and he would take care of the very young men he had abord every mission she was in.
18. July 2020 access_time 19:41
Hello Mark,
I am very sorry, that the original description of the photo is wrong.
I didn’t know that and why the photographic unit wrote the wrong name.