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WW2 USAAF UNIDENTIFIED B-24 CRASHED AIRFIELD PRESS TYPE PHOTO | eBayBaugher:
Douglas-Tulsa B-24H-10-DT Liberator
41-28697 after combat career ended, became formation assembly ship for 458th BG, replacing
42-40127. Crashed Mar 1945 and replaced by 42-100366. 754th Bombardment Squadron,
named 'Dixie Bell II'. Later as 458th Bombardment Group assembly ship, nick-named 'Spotted Ass Ape'
aka 'Spotted Ape', also nick-named 'Wonderbread'. Damaged 9Mar45 when landed heavy and landing gear collapsed
at RAF Horsham St Faith
They seem to have shot a lot of camels on 'Squeeze'SQUEEZE
Grp. Sq. Serial,
308 374 44-42020
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B-24J Liberator Tubarão, 491st BG
Grp. Sq. Serial,
491 854 44-40101
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EAGER BEAVER BOMBING COMPANY
Grp. Sq. Serial,
44 ? 42-40731
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That seems unusual; US markings on fuselage and British markings on the tailConsolidated B-24D-1-CO "Liberator" #41-23711 "Jerk's Natural" 93rd BG 328th BS seen here on a RAF base Gambut, Libya February 1943. Ship was lost in an attack at Wiener Neustadt, Austria le 1 st October 1943, shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf-109G-6 Jagdgeschwader 1. / JG27 "Afrika".
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