USAAF Station 126 - Rattlesden
Aircraft Gallery 5
| 447th Bomb Group USAAF Station 126 - Rattlesden Aircraft Gallery 5 |
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| 43-37873
N "Nazdrowie" 709th BS Photo taken April 5, 1945. Engine fire during takeoff spread to fuel tanks. Lt. Dryer was able to keep control and taxi off the runway. Aircraft was repaired and later scrapped at Kingman in 1946. |
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| 43-37879
R (name unknown) 711th BS Photo dated August 10, 1944 Battle damage on Aug. 9 mission to Aachen; crash landed on return; written off and salvaged on Aug. 12, 1944. |
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| 43-38230
E "Wolf Wagon" 709th BS Photo by Charles Brown, May 1945 Scrapped at Kingman, Arizona in 1946. See Aircraft
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| 43-38450
B "Lucky Partners" 710th BS Photo between December 1944 and April 1945 Also named "Little Herbie," scrapped at Kingman, Arizona in 1946. See Aircraft Profile |
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| 43-38466
C (name unknown) Photo taken at Kingman in 1946, carries the Triangle-K of the 379th Bomb Group on its wingtip. |
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| 43-38524
S "Blonde Bomber II" 710th BS Photo taken during 1945 at Rattlesden Scrapped at Kingman, Arizona in 1946. See Aircraft Profile |
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| 43-38605
J "The Bigass Bird" 709th BS Photo undated, and personnel unidentified; identification of aircraft based on chronology and supporting documents;
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| 43-38622
Q (name unknown) 710th BS Photo between February and May, 1945 Scrapped at Kingman, Arizona in 1946. |
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| 43-38712
C "Buddy Buddy" 70th BS Photo between October 1944 and February 1945 Scrapped at Kingman, Arizona in 1946. |
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| 43-38719
A "Blue Hen Chick" 709th BS Photo after February 1945. Suffered landing gear collapse on May 20, 1945, was repaired, but ultimately scrapped at Kingman, Arizona in 1946. See Aircraft Profile In 2003, the 709 Airlift Squadron named one of its C-5s Spirit of the Blue Hen |
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| 43-38731
O "Blythe Spirit" 711th BS Photo before February 1945 Named by the cast of the London production of Noel Coward's "Blythe Spirit," appearing at Rattlesden in October 1944; lost over Oranienburg, April 15, 1945. |
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| 43-38768
B "Beelzebub"
708th BS Photo after February, 1945 Scrapped at Kingman, Arizona in 1946. |
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