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Press Photo 1943 USAAF 379th Bomb Group Crew Celebrate 25th Mission Kimbolton | eBay
Original Press Photo from 1943 shows crew members of B-17 "Lakanuki" after the completion of their 25th bombing mission on their return to their Airfield at Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire UK. The B-17 they flew in was part of the 526th Bomb Squadron which in turn was part of the 379th Bomb Group based at Kimbolton from 1943 through to 1945.
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42-5827 | American Air Museum in Britain Delivered Long Beach 1/3/43; Sioux City 16/3/43; Kearney 9/4/43; Dow Fd 21/4/43; Assigned 524BS/379BG Kimbolton 20/5/43; 526BS [LF-Y]; on mission to Le Bourget 16/8/43 Navigator: Harry Bailey Killed in Action when he fell out of ship after escape hatch dropped out; Missing in Action 5/1/44 with Allen Grissom, Co-pilot: John Phillips, Navigator: John Beach, Bombardier: Holger Eklund, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Prochazka, Radio Operator: Hugo Havet, Ball turret gunner: Byron Green, Waist gunner: Delmar Sowers, Waist gunner: E. Bailey, Tail gunner: Bob Hall (10 INT); flak caused battle damage and pilot headed to safety, crash landed Skegrie, near Trelleborg, Sweden and used for spares for other B-17s. Missing Air Crew Report 1942. LAKANUKI.
Original Press Photo from 1943 shows crew members of B-17 "Lakanuki" after the completion of their 25th bombing mission on their return to their Airfield at Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire UK. The B-17 they flew in was part of the 526th Bomb Squadron which in turn was part of the 379th Bomb Group based at Kimbolton from 1943 through to 1945.
American
42-5827 | American Air Museum in Britain Delivered Long Beach 1/3/43; Sioux City 16/3/43; Kearney 9/4/43; Dow Fd 21/4/43; Assigned 524BS/379BG Kimbolton 20/5/43; 526BS [LF-Y]; on mission to Le Bourget 16/8/43 Navigator: Harry Bailey Killed in Action when he fell out of ship after escape hatch dropped out; Missing in Action 5/1/44 with Allen Grissom, Co-pilot: John Phillips, Navigator: John Beach, Bombardier: Holger Eklund, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Prochazka, Radio Operator: Hugo Havet, Ball turret gunner: Byron Green, Waist gunner: Delmar Sowers, Waist gunner: E. Bailey, Tail gunner: Bob Hall (10 INT); flak caused battle damage and pilot headed to safety, crash landed Skegrie, near Trelleborg, Sweden and used for spares for other B-17s. Missing Air Crew Report 1942. LAKANUKI.
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