 NAME
|
TP | - | M# | SER | - | BLK | - | MF | SERIAL # |
AF |
BG |
BS |
SC | RCL/# | V#-P | PHOTO CREDITS |
PREGNANT PEG |
B |
- |
24 |
H |
- |
1 |
- |
FO |
42-7491 |
8 |
392 |
577 |
~ |
R |
00-3 |
N/A |
Port (Left) Side - Transferred from 577 (R) to
578 (EC Q)
Lost 3 Mar 44, GER - MACR 2800 - Pilot Richard E. Smith
Contributor - Stephen Adams
At Watton while undergoing repairs, after
crash-landing.
Info Contributor - James A. Leddy
"It Couldn't Be Done" -- So they said but Major Allen Russell, operations chief of the Ferry and Transport Service with U.S.A.A.S.C., confounded experts when he flew the
crash-landed Liberator PREGNANT PEG out of a ploughed field sticky with mud.
His crew chief, T/Sgt Cecil F. Grove of Waverly, MO., sat beside him as he took the plane off a dangerously-short improvised
runway.
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