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SER

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BLK

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PHOTO CREDITS

HAPPY GO- LUCKY

B

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24

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15

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FO

42-52772

8

446

705

HN

B

00-2

N/A

Lost 25 Aug 44, GER - MACR 8474 - Pilot Fred E. Mincks, Jr. - Flight Jacket

Contributor - Roy Getchell
Shown with my Grandfather, Lewis Getchell (Waist Gunner - standing 3rd from right), who completed over 30 missions in 1943-44 including the first daylight bombing of Berlin. He was awarded the DFC with 3 clusters.

Info Contributor - Tom Brittan
8 487 xxx Original aircraft, transferred before 6 Jun 44 to:
8 446 705 (HN B) Went down in the North Sea.

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