NAME | TP | - | M# | SER | - | BLK | - | MF | SERIAL # |
AF |
BG |
BS |
SC | RCL/# | V#-P | PHOTO CREDITS |
CHUM VII |
B |
- |
24 |
D |
- |
53 |
- |
CO |
42-40392 |
9 |
376 |
515 |
~ |
O/84 |
00-6 |
N/A |
Starboard (Right) Side - Color Image - "Tail Shot" - Crash-Landed 13 Aug 43 - "RAF Fin Flash"
Info Contributor - Al Blue
Wrongly and consistently listed as 42-40382 (O/84) in the 376th mission
reports, first appearing in early May 43 and usually flown by Jerome P. DuFour.
Info Contributor - Chris Gregg
#84 started flying combat with the 515th BS 6 May 43, and was lost 13
Aug 43 at El Batham Tunisia while making an emergency landing (nose wheel
collapsed). This aircraft did not fly the Ploesti mission 1
Aug 43, but did fly the 13 Aug 43 Wiener-Neustadt mission. The 9th AF took off from Bengasi on the 13th and landed in Tunisia after bombing
Wiener-Neustadt.
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