USAAF Station 126 - Rattlesden
Aircraft Gallery 2
| 447th Bomb Group USAAF Station 126 - Rattlesden Aircraft Gallery 2 |
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Page 2 42-31777 - 42-97392 |
Page 3 42-97400 - 42-107117 |
Page 4 42-107197 - 43-37869 |
Page 5 43-37873 - 43-38768 |
Page 6 43-38884 - 44-83279 |
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(name unknown) 709th BS Photo dated August 4, 1944 Damaged near Paris on August 2, 1944; crash landed at Rattlesden on return; written off and salvaged. |
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| 42-32080
H "Virginia Helen" "Virgins From Hell" and "Too Tired" 708th BS Photo taken Aug/Sept 1944 The Polansky crew is shown loading. Members of the crew recall that the aircraft shown is "Too Tired," but this cannot be confirmed on the basis of the photo. Crash-landed during a training flight in May, 1945 and salvaged. |
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| 42-32081
N "Yellow Cab" 708th Photo between April and November 1944. Date will be established by mission count of 24-25 as shown. Damaged over Hamburg on November 11, 1944 and crashed into Channel with the loss of all on board. See Aircraft Profile.
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| 42-37854
"Round Trip" 708th BS Photo approx. April 1944, based on 20 missions shown; crash landed during takeoff on January 6, 1945; referred to in Engineering report as "camera and weather ship." |
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| 42-37866
C "Bloated Body" 708th BS Photo between Dec. 31 1943 and March 22, 1944 Lost over Berlin on April 29, 1944. Note: This ID is tentative as the serial number is not entirely clear and we have no separate information confirming Bloated Body as "C" |
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| 42-37868
"Due Back" 708th BS Photo taken at Rattlesden, sometime between November '43 and April '44 with an unidentified crew. Due Back was lost on April 29, 1944. |
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| 42-37871
"Uninvited" 711th BS Photo taken sometime after January 1945 when Uninvited was declared war-weary, and relegated to non-combat operations; returned to Kingman and was scrapped in 1946.
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| 42-37873
F (name unknown) 709th BS Photo July 13, 1944 at Dubendorf, Switz. Forced landing at Dubendorf on July 11, 1944. Aircraft and crew interned; subsequently scrapped at Kingman, Arizona in 1946. |
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| 42-38164
M "Virginia Lee" 710th BS Photo taken after May 12 1944 crash landing near Angolsheim, Germany. See Aircraft Profile |
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| 42-39874
H Wichita Witch / Queen Patsy 709th BS Photo approx. April-June 1944 Hit on June 22 mission to Nucourt; Lt. Paul Fagg and crew survived a forced landing on the Normandy beachhead, but the aircraft was written off. |
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| 42-39886
J Hi Mack 709th BS Photo dated June 29, 1944 Crash landed at Rattlesden on June 29, 1944; written off and salvaged.
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| 42-97092
K "Virginia Lee II" (and "Heel der Fuhrer")
708th BS
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| 42-97176
O (name unknown) 710th BS Photo approx April 2 - May 20, 1944 Lost on May 20, 1944, apparently to
friendly fire during test firing of guns over the English Channel. Only the
pilot Lt. A.E. Town and co-pilot Lt. Robert Lewis survived. |
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| 42-97296
"Royal Flush" 711th BS Pictorial History photo, undated (unknown crew) Flew over 100 combat missions, damaged in a taxi accident on April 18, 1945, and salvaged in England. See Aircraft Profile |
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| 42-97392
F "Mona's Marauders" 711th BS Photo approx March - May 1945 Also known as "Ramblin Wreck" See Aircraft Profile |
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An
earlier (but undated) form of the nose art is seen in this photo of the
J.C. Brown crew, who arrived in Rattlesden in March 1944.