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TP | - | M# | SER | - | BLK | - | MF | SERIAL # |
AF |
BG |
BS |
SC | RCL/# | V#-P | PHOTO CREDITS |
LONESOME LADY |
B |
- |
24 |
J |
- |
175 | - |
CO | 44-40680 | 7 | 494 | 866 | ~ | ~ | 00-1 | N/A |
Lost 28 Jul 45, JPN -
MACR 14758 - Pilot
Thomas C. Cartwright
Featured in
"A Date With the Lonesome Lady"
Info Contributor - James A. Leddy
Flying in formation over Mindanao, Philippine
Islands. Angaur Island, 6 Apr 45.
Info Contributor - Daniel
L. Stockton
When LONESOME LADY was shot down during a bombing run in the Inland Sea of
Japan, Pilot/Author T. C. Cartwright and his crew became POWs. The men were interned at
Hiroshima, and while the pilot/author was sent to Tokyo for interrogation, his entire
crew was killed by the U. S. atomic bomb.
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