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Old 21st December 2010, 07:34
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Re: Which 5 b-17s of 323 BS take off on 4 feb 1943. Hamm Raid.

Hi,
Your list of 322BS listed as 21-24511;21-24515;21-24139;21-24497;and 21-24481.
I expect this to have been a typo error ? and that the serial numbers you mean to read as 41-24511;41-24515;41-24139;41-24497;41-24481 ?

If so then you have listed 41-24515 also under the 324 BS ?

There was no B17 with the serial number 41-24139, I expect this a/c to have been either 41-24399 or 41-24639, 41-24439 crashed on 20th December 1942.

As for the 401st BS listing of 41-24362, I think you will find that the correct serial number would have been 42-5362 (MIA 26 February 1943 with 1Lt. Beman E. Smith) as 41-24362 was lost in the english Channel on the 9th October 1942 with the 301BG.

" '970" would have been 42-2970 "Connecticut Yankee".

If as you suggest, the Mission report has 17 a/c , five from each of three squadrons and only two from the 401BS this would be correct but as "Delta Rebel No2" of the 323 BS Aborted and its crew changed to "Stormy Weather" then the 323 BS would have had six a/c in the list, yes ?

Bobrow 41-24544; Ellis 41-24589; McCarty 41-24549; Birdsong 1st 42-5077, 2nd 42-5225; Bishop ?

41-24589; 41-24544; 42-5077; 42-5225; 42-29559 (a replacement a/c from the 25th February 1943 so not this a/c) but more like 41-24549 and one other .

Also "41-24549 323 BS "OR-O/Q" "Stupen-Taket" rather than 42-29559 323 BS "OR-Q" "Stupntakit" gained 25-2-43

all for now
Alex

Last edited by Alex Smart; 21st December 2010 at 09:35.
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