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CO | 42-40079 | 7 | 11 | 26 | ~ | ~ | 00-2 |
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Contributor - James A. Leddy
Caption Reads: "Left to right: 1st Lt. William E. Rubel and Capt. John J. Lieb show good luck charms after completion of 30th
bombing mission. 26th Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group. Hickam Field, Oahu,
Hawaii. May 1944".
Info Contributor - Robert
Livingstone
Survived combat and was returned to the US on 26 May
44 where it became a training aircraft. In Nov 45, it entered the Restricted
category as an RB-24D, went to Kingman for storage in Dec 45 and in Jan 46 it
was turned over to the Reconstruction Finance Company for disposal. At some time
after that it would have been reduced to scrap and sold for smelting.
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