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*WWII photo- B 17 Flying Fortress Bomber plane Nose Art - MY PRINCESS* | eBay

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42-30499 | American Air Museum in Britain B-17F-105-BO 42-30499 My Princess Delivered Cheyenne 10/6/43; Rapid City 18/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Gr Isle 30/6/43; Tinker 16/7/43; Gr Isle 23/7/43; Kearney 8/8/43; Topeka 14/8/43; Assigned 509BS/351BG [RQ-Q] Polebrook 27/9/43; 43m returned from Berlin with damage 21/6/44 with Howard Hibbard, Co-pilot: Bob Bukow, Navigator: Carlton Mendell (3 Returned to Duty); Bombardier: Doug Raymond, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Harris, Radio Operator: Doug Miles (Wounded in Action), Ball turret gunner: David Harman (Wounded in Action), Waist gunner: Levi Pratt, Waist gunner: Hopper Biddle, Tail gunner: Verlyn Kveen (Wounded in Action) (7 POW- bailed out over Germany); rest of crew brought ship home to land at RAF Beccles, Suffolk, UK; Salvaged 1/8/44. MY PRINCESS.
 
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B-24

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Lil Joe The B-24D, named, 'Lil Joe', SN # 41-11886, was flown on Operation Tidal Wave to destroy the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania, by Lt. Lindley Hussey. 'Lil Joe' was lost on the Ploesti oil refinery raid. The aircraft was hit by flak and had a large fuel leak in one of it's bomb bay gas tanks prior to bombing it's target, but it's pilot, Lt. Hussey, pressed on and bombed the target with the plane bursting into flames from the leaking gasoline. Hussey pulled aircraft into climb to enable a bail out. Six crewmen bailed. Two survived their descent. SSgt Roy Carney, the tail gunner, was killed. KIA. 'Lil Joe' exploded and crashed in a field. Lt. Hussey and his radioman were pulled from the wrecked aircraft badly burned and became POW's. - 4 POW - 5 KIA. MACR 222. 41-11886 | American Air Museum in Britain

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WWII Vintage Original Photo - Crew of "Toni-7" B-17 34th Bomb Group, 1945 | eBay
B-17G-85-BO 43-38380

43-38380 | American Air Museum in Britain Delivered Cheyenne 27 July 1944; Kearney 6 August 1944; Grenier 15 August 1944; Assigned 391BS/34BG Mendlesham 16 August 1944. Among other pilots, 1st Lt Harold E. Dwyer flew on it on the 16 April 1945 mission. Returned to the USA Bradley 21 June 1945; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 24 June 1945; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman, Arizona 30 November 1945.

crew left to right

ssgt Kenneth Highfill Ball turret
ssgt Marcus James Radio operator
ssgt Clarence Harrison waist gunner
2 nd lt Kenneth Muccino Navigator
ssgt Lewie H Miller tail gunner
2 nd lt Richard Lane Bombardier (Back)
1 st lt George Grisham Pilot
2 nd lt James Gill co-pilot

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