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Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-20-DL Fortress 42-37913 delivered Denver on the 13th of October 1943; Gr Island on the 29th of October 1943; assigned to 418BS/100BG (LD-W) at Thorpe Abbotts on the 18th of November 1943; damaged on the 20th of December 1943 at Troston, UK, on mission to Oberpfaffenhofen on the 18th of March 1944, in mid-air collision with 42-39830 (100BG), two engines broke away and nose with only #4 operating; crashed Place de Moulin, Campeaux, two miles N of Hericourt-St Samson, E of Rouen, France.
8KIA, 1 POW, 1 evaded.

 

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Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-25-DL Fortress 42-38013 delivered Cheyenne on the 26th of November 1943; New Castle on the 10 of December 1943; Presque Is on the 15th of December 1943; assigned to 547BS/384BG (SO-C) at Grafton Underwood on the 21st of January 1944, named "Nevada Avenger".
Salvaged on the 26th of April 1945.

 

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Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-30-DL Fortress 42-38113 delivered Cheyenne on the 16th of December 1943; Gr Island on the 29th of December 1943; Presque Is on the 21st of January 1944; assigned 749BS/457BG (A) Glatton on the 23rd of January 1944; then 750BS (R); According to 457th records, this aircraft was loaned out to the 750th BS and 751st BS on at least two occasions each.
This may account for an error in recording of its assignment to the 750th BS (457th BG, 750th BS) hit by flak during mission to Hopsten on the 21st of March 1945.
Crew bailed out and evaded except for one who became POW.

 

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Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-30-DL Fortress 42-38213 (2nd BG, 20th BS) lost on the 17th of July 1944.

 

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Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow 42-39413 lost at sea due to battle damage over target on the 22nd of June 1945.
Crew bailed out and were rescued.

 

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Northrop P-61B-6-NO Black Widow 42-39513 condemned salvage on the 30th of October 1945.

 

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Northrop P-61B-25-NO Black Widow 42-39613 to reclamation at Mitchel Field, NY on the 14th of June 1949.

 

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Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow 42-39713 condemned salvage on the 31st of December 1945.

 

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Dornier Do 335 Pfeil found at Bindbach, Germany, was taken by the 11th Armored Division, 3rd U.S. Army in 1945.

 

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Lockheed/Vega B-17G-1-VE Fortress 42-39813 (390th BG, 568th BS, "Yankee Rebel") No. 3 engine caught fire, abandoned, and crashed near Mt. Pleasant, UK, on the 16th of November 1943. 2 killed, 8 bailed out.

 

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Lockheed/Vega B-17G-5-VE Fortress 42-39913 condemned salvage battle damage on the 31st January, 1944.

 

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Lockheed/Vega B-17G-10-VE Fortress 42-40013 to RFC at Kingman, AZ, on the 4th of December, 1945.

 

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Consolidated B-24D-35-CO Liberator 42-40213 SOC on the 8th July 1944.

 

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Consolidated B-24D-45-CO Liberator 42-40313 (98th BG, 343rd BS, "Boots") shot down by AAA on the 1st of August, 1943 in Ploesti raid.
8 KIA, 2 POW.

 

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Consolidated B-24D-55-CO Liberator 42-40413 to CL-26 on the 4th of October, 1944. Reclamation completed Victorville AAF, CA, on the 21st of January 1946.

 

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Consolidated B-24D-65-CO Liberator 42-40513 (529th BS, 380th BG, 5th AF) in takeoff accident at Manbulloo airfield, Northern Territory, Australia, on the 15th of September, 1943. Nosewheel collapsed, all crew survived, aircraft destroyed and condemned on the 26th October, 1943.

 

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Consolidated B-24D-80-CO Liberator 42- 40613 (93rd BG, 330th BS, 8th AF, "Pudgy") made forced landing at Ogrezeni, Rumania after being damaged by German fighters during Ploesti raid on the 1st of August, 1943.
6 crew killed, 5 bailed out and became POW.

 

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Consolidated B-24D-90-CO Liberator 42-40713 (858th BS, 492nd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Harrington Airfield, Station USAAF-179, Northamptonshire, England, taxiing accident on the 12th of September 1944, at RAF Harrington Airfield.
All (10) crew survived.
Aircraft must have been repaired and flown back to the United States, to RFC at Albuquerque, NM, in 1945.

 

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Consolidated B-24D-100-CO Liberator 42-40813 crashed due engine failure at Kwongoma, Nigeria, on the 7th of July, 1943.

 

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Consolidated B-24D-125-CO Liberator 42-41013 lost on the 7th of January, 1944, France.
566th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Hethel Airfield) Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England, shot down by gunfire from German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-6 and crashed northeast of Orlenas France, while on a mission on the I. G. Farbenindustrie Chemical plant at Ludwigshafen Germany.
Fw 190A-6 flown by Major Egon Mayer of JG 2/Stab.
(10) crew Killed, (1) crewman bailed out and was captured & POW.