391st Bomb Group - Aircraft Information For Serial Number: 42-107748

391st BOMB GROUP: Aircraft information for serial number: 42-107748

Click on the taxi code or serial number for aircraft information

Aircraft information for serial number: 42-107748
Taxi	Squadron	Serial	Code	Name	Source	Taxi Sheets
74?-Q	572	42-107748	P2-Q	THE GINNIE GEE	Taxi sheets. Typo for 748-Q ?	1
740-Q	572	42-107748	P2-Q	THE GINNIE GEE	Taxi sheets. Typo for 748-Q ?	1
748-O	572	42-107748	P2-O	THE GINNIE GEE	Taxi sheets. Typo for 748-Q ?	2
748-Q	572	42-107748	P2-Q	THE GINNIE GEE	Original website	36

Aircraft history for serial number: 42-107748 (kindly provided by Paul Clouting).
Delivered from the Martin Omaha plant. Next listed at Omaha, Nebraska (ATC) on 8/3/44, and Rosecrans, Missouri (ATC) on 8/3/44. Then flown to the 3rd AF staging area at Hunter Field, Savannah, Georgia (from 9/3/44). Flown overseas to the UK via the Southern Ferry Route, as a 9th AF replacement aircraft, departing the USA on 21/3/44. The record card then lists, SOXO A (Europe) on 20/3/44, and, SOXO 9AF R (Europe) on 19/4/44. Entered combat with the 391st BG / 572nd BS on 13/5/44. The aircraft was first assigned to pilot Lt. John W Blute who named the aircraft after his wife Virginia Glancy. Damaged Cat.3 in a mid air collision with 42-95809 over Station 166, Matching Green, Essex on 21/6/44 flown by Lt. John W Blute. The aircraft was repaired. Later flown by pilots Lt. Roy E. Russell, and Ken Chapin. Went on to fly over 130 combat missions by April 1945, when the aircraft was transferred out, after the group converted to the Douglas A-26. The final entry on the aircraft record card lists, GLUE CON SAL FEA on 18/2/46.

Aircraft history for serial number: 42-107748 (kindly provided by Paul Clouting).

Delivered from the Martin Omaha plant. Next listed at Omaha, Nebraska (ATC) on 8/3/44, and Rosecrans, Missouri (ATC) on 8/3/44. Then flown to the 3rd AF staging area at Hunter Field, Savannah, Georgia (from 9/3/44). Flown overseas to the UK via the Southern Ferry Route, as a 9th AF replacement aircraft, departing the USA on 21/3/44. The record card then lists, SOXO A (Europe) on 20/3/44, and, SOXO 9AF R (Europe) on 19/4/44. Entered combat with the 391st BG / 572nd BS on 13/5/44. The aircraft was first assigned to pilot Lt. John W Blute who named the aircraft after his wife Virginia Glancy. Damaged Cat.3 in a mid air collision with 42-95809 over Station 166, Matching Green, Essex on 21/6/44 flown by Lt. John W Blute. The aircraft was repaired. Later flown by pilots Lt. Roy E. Russell, and Ken Chapin. Went on to fly over 130 combat missions by April 1945, when the aircraft was transferred out, after the group converted to the Douglas A-26. The final entry on the aircraft record card lists, GLUE CON SAL FEA on 18/2/46.

Incident listing for serial number: 42-107748
Mission	Source_id	Description	Serial
101	A00031	Accident Report, 42-107748. 21 Jun 1944	42-107748

Picture listing for serial number: 42-107748
Picture Title	Picture Category	Serial
Blute Crew	Crews	42-107748
"The Ginnie Gee"	Nose Art	42-107748

Taxi Sheet listing for serial number: 42-107748
Mission	Date	Station	Box	Flight	Position	Pilot	Squadron	Hardstand	Taxi	Serial
60	15 May 1944	166	1	2	2	Blute	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
61	19 May 1944	166	2	2	2	Blute	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
65	22 May 1944	166	2	3	5	Newman	574	41	743-Q	42-107748
65	22 May 1944	166	1	1	5	Blute	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
70	26 May 1944	166	2	1	3	Baehr	572	6	740-Q	42-107748
71	27 May 1944	166	2	1	2	Baehr	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
72	27 May 1944	166	2	3	2	Baehr	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
77	30 May 1944	166	1	2	3	Blute	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
78	31 May 1944	166	1	2	3	Blute	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
82	04 Jun 1944	166	2	2	5	Blute	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
84	06 Jun 1944	166	2	3	2	Koehl	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
87	07 Jun 1944	166	2	2	5	Holliday	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
93	12 Jun 1944	166	2	1	6	Dewitt	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
95	13 Jun 1944	166	1	1	2	Blute	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
96	14 Jun 1944	166	2	1	5	Dewitt	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
97	15 Jun 1944	166	1	3	1	Shaffner	573	6	748-Q	42-107748
99	18 Jun 1944	166	1	3	7	Fry	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
100	20 Jun 1944	166	2	1	6	Holliday	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
101	21 Jun 1944	166	2	2	2	Blute	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
121	24 Jul 1944	166	2	3	7	Watkinson	574	6	748-Q	42-107748
122	25 Jul 1944	166	2	2	2	Blute	572	6	748-O	42-107748
123	26 Jul 1944	166	1	3	2	Blute	572	6	748-O	42-107748
124	28 Jul 1944	166	1	3	2	Blute	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
127	31 Jul 1944	166	2	1	3	Snyder	573	6	748-Q	42-107748
128	01 Aug 1944	166	1	3	4	Rutledge	574	6	748-Q	42-107748
137	08 Aug 1944	166	2	2	5	Blute	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
167	14 Sep 1944	166	1	3	7	Hall	572	6	748-Q	42-107748
171	27 Sep 1944	A-73	2	3	7	Dillard	573	6	748-Q	42-107748
182	03 Nov 1944	A-73	2	2	6	Chapin	572	60	748-Q	42-107748
192	29 Nov 1944	A-73	2	3	2	Chapin	572	60	748-Q	42-107748
206	25 Dec 1944	A-73	1	2	5	Thiedeman	572	60	748-Q	42-107748
207	25 Dec 1944	A-73	1	2	6	Chapin	572	60	74?-Q	42-107748
212	22 Jan 1945	A-73	2	2	6	Young	572	60	748-Q	42-107748
214	28 Jan 1945	A-73	1	3	3	Chapin	572	60	748-Q	42-107748
223	10 Feb 1945	A-73	1	2	2	Gates	572	60	748-Q	42-107748
230	18 Feb 1945	A-73	1	1	5	Lantz	572	59	748-Q	42-107748
243	03 Mar 1945	A-73	2	2	4	Chapin	572	60	748-Q	42-107748
245	04 Mar 1945	A-73	1	3	3	Johnson	574	60	748-Q	42-107748
247	06 Mar 1945	A-73	1	2	2	Hess	572	60	748-Q	42-107748
261	18 Mar 1945	A-73	2	2	3	Hess	572	60	748-Q	42-107748
265	22 Mar 1945	A-73	1	2	4	Chatellier	572	60	748-Q	42-107748