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Douglas-Tulsa B-24H-10-DT Liberator 41-28713 564th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force, RAF Hethel Airfield, Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England.
Crashed on the 11th of July 1944 at Noyelles 8 km Southwest of Lille, France, after running out of out fuel while returning from a mission to Munich Germany.
All (13) Crew Bailed Out.
1 crewman was killed when his parachute failed to open.
4 crew were captured and became POWs.
8 crew evaded capture.

 

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Douglas-Tulsa B-24H-15-DT Liberator 41-28913 (461st BG, 767th BS) lost on the 17th of December 1944.

 

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Consolidated B-24E-10-CF Liberator 41-29013, redesignated as RB-24E, w/o on the 3rd of January 1944 at Matheson, CO.

 

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Consolidated B-24H-5-CF Liberator 41-29213 (450th BG) lost on the 23rd of February 1944, Austria.

 

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Consolidated B-24H-10-CF Liberator 41-29313 (461st BG, 766th BS) crashed on the 22nd of July 1944.

 

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Consolidated B-24H-15-CF Liberator 41-29513 (827th BS, 484th BG, 15th AF), based at Torretto airfield, Foggia, Italy.
Shot down on the 10th of May 1944 by AAA and crashed in Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland, Austria, while on mission to Weiner Neustadt, Austria.
8 KIA, 2 bailed out and became POW.

 

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North American B-25D Mitchell 41-29813 W/O on the 8th of February 1944 at Jewell, GA.

 

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North American B-25D-10 Mitchell 41-30213 (13th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF), based at Dobodura Airfield, Papua New Guinea.
Shot down on the 2nd of November 1942 by Anti-Aircraft fire from Japanese ships over Simpson Harbor, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, in the South Pacific, while on a mission on shipping in Simpson Harbor.
Left engine caught fire.
Crashed Near Kokopo East New Britain.
All 4 of the crew were killed.

 

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North American B-25D-10 Mitchell 41-30313 (8th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF), based at Jackson Airfield, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Hit on the 9th of July 1943 by gunfire from a Japanese Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar, near Salamaua Morobe, Papua New Guinea in The South Pacific.
Ki-43 Oscar, flown by SgtMaj. Katsuaka Kira of 24th Sentai.
Ditched off Salamaua.
1 crewman was killed.
4 crew survived and swam to an island and met by Australian coast watcher.
Rescued by a U.S. Navy LCI.

 

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North American B-25D-20 Mitchell 41-30613 (41st BG, 396th BS), shot down on the 9th of January 1944, Marshall Islands, Pacific.
2 crew KIA, 5 made POW but were executed by the Japanese.

 

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Martin B-26B-20-MA Marauder 41-31713 (387th BG, 557th BS), "Kouragious Keet" crashlanded at Chipping Ongar, UK, on the 18th of November 1943.

 

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Martin B-26C-25-MO Marauder 41-35213 crashed at Atterburg AAF, Columbus, IN on the 7th of October 1943 after engine failed on takeoff. 4 injured, one OK

 

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Martin B-26C-25-MO Marauder 41-35313 to RFC at Kingman on the 19th of October 1945.

 

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Martin B-26C-30-MO Marauder 41-35413 to excess inventory list on the 5th of August 1945.

 

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Martin B-26C-30-MO Marauder 41-35513 to RAF as Marauder II FB476 in September 1943.
SOC on the 31st of May 1945.

 

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Martin B-26C-40-MO Marauder 41-35813 Conv to AT-23B; redes as TB-26C in 1944, w/o on the 30th of April 1944 at Trenton, TN.
Surveyed at Yuma AAF, AZ on the 1st of May 1944.

 

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Curtiss P-40E-1 41-35959 to New Zealand as NZ3013.
Sold to private user on the 2nd of March 1948.

 

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Curtiss P-40E-1 41-36104 to RAAF as A29-113 in May 1942.