391st Bomb Group - Aircraft Information For Serial Number: 42-95820

391st BOMB GROUP: Aircraft information for serial number: 42-95820

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Aircraft information for serial number: 42-95820
Taxi	Squadron	Serial	Code	Name	Source	Taxi Sheets
820-P	573	42-95820	T6-P	VAGABOND / Hare Raisin ?	Taxi sheets. Typo for 820-S ?	1
820-S	573	42-95820	T6-S	VAGABOND / Hare Raisin ?	Original website	41

Aircraft history for serial number: 42-95820 (kindly provided by Paul Clouting).
Built at the Glenn L Martin factory at Baltimore, Maryland as a B-26B-45-MA. Accepted by the Army Air Force on 9/11/43. Next flown by New Castle (2nd Ferry Group), Wilmington, Deleware (from 4/12/43), to Lynchburg Municipal Airport, Virginia (ATC) from 13/12/43. Then went to Patterson Field, Ohio (ATC) from 16/12/43, and Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky (from 17/12/43), and assigned to the 391st BG. Flown overseas to the UK via the Southern Ferry Route (Listed as Carribean Wing), departing the USA on 9/1/44. The aircraft record card then lists, SOXO A (Europe - 8th AF) on 8/1/44, and SOXO R (Europe - 8th AF) from 19/2/44. Original group aircraft. Was originally named "Hare Raisin", was later renamed "Vagabond". Crash landed at A-73 Roye-Amy, France on 12/3/45 flown by Homer V Lent. The aircraft suffered Cat.4 damage, and was salvaged on 15/3/45. The final entry on the aircraft record card lists, GLUE 9AF CON SAL NBD on 15/3/45.

Aircraft history for serial number: 42-95820 (kindly provided by Paul Clouting).

Built at the Glenn L Martin factory at Baltimore, Maryland as a B-26B-45-MA. Accepted by the Army Air Force on 9/11/43. Next flown by New Castle (2nd Ferry Group), Wilmington, Deleware (from 4/12/43), to Lynchburg Municipal Airport, Virginia (ATC) from 13/12/43. Then went to Patterson Field, Ohio (ATC) from 16/12/43, and Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky (from 17/12/43), and assigned to the 391st BG. Flown overseas to the UK via the Southern Ferry Route (Listed as Carribean Wing), departing the USA on 9/1/44. The aircraft record card then lists, SOXO A (Europe - 8th AF) on 8/1/44, and SOXO R (Europe - 8th AF) from 19/2/44. Original group aircraft. Was originally named "Hare Raisin", was later renamed "Vagabond". Crash landed at A-73 Roye-Amy, France on 12/3/45 flown by Homer V Lent. The aircraft suffered Cat.4 damage, and was salvaged on 15/3/45. The final entry on the aircraft record card lists, GLUE 9AF CON SAL NBD on 15/3/45.

Incident listing for serial number: 42-95820
Mission	Source_id	Description	Serial
0	A00065	Accident Report, 42-95820. 12 Mar 1945	42-95820

Picture listing for serial number: 42-95820
Picture Title	Picture Category	Serial
"Vagabond"	Nose Art	42-95820
"Vagabond"	Nose Art	42-95820

Taxi Sheet listing for serial number: 42-95820
Mission	Date	Station	Box	Flight	Position	Pilot	Squadron	Hardstand	Taxi	Serial
4	25 Feb 1944	166	2	3	6	Schirmer	575	20	820-S	42-95820
7	02 Mar 1944	166	1	2	4	Gibson	573	20	820-S	42-95820
31	22 Apr 1944	166	1	3	4	Armstrong	573	24	820-S	42-95820
40	28 Apr 1944	166	1	2	7	Spare	572	22	820-S	42-95820
43	01 May 1944	166	1	1	4	Armstrong	573	24	820-S	42-95820
44	01 May 1944	166	1	1	4	Armstrong	573	24	820-S	42-95820
47	07 May 1944	166	1	1	6	Mccarty	572	22	820-S	42-95820
48	07 May 1944	166	1	2	4	Dickinson	572	22	820-S	42-95820
53	10 May 1944	166	2	3	1	Earll	572	24	820-S	42-95820
54	10 May 1944	166	2	3	6	Jacobs	572	22	820-S	42-95820
60	15 May 1944	166	1	1	6	Mccarty	572	22	820-S	42-95820
61	19 May 1944	166	2	3	3	Alexander	572	22	820-S	42-95820
71	27 May 1944	166	2	3	2	Koehl	572	22	820-S	42-95820
77	30 May 1944	166	1	2	2	Smith	572	22	820-S	42-95820
78	31 May 1944	166	1	3	5	Fry, B	572	22	820-S	42-95820
99	18 Jun 1944	166	1	3	3	Baxter	573	21	820-S	42-95820
100	20 Jun 1944	166	1	2	4	Armstrong	573	21	820-S	42-95820
102	21 Jun 1944	166	2	4	2	Spare Ship	573	21	820-S	42-95820
106	25 Jun 1944	166	1	3	4	Armstrong	573	21	820-S	42-95820
108	05 Jul 1944	166	1	2	4	Armstrong	573	21	820-P	42-95820
114	12 Jul 1944	166	2	4	2	Spare Ship	573	21	820-S	42-95820
120	23 Jul 1944	166	2	2	4	Armstrong	573	21	820-S	42-95820
121	24 Jul 1944	166	1	1	4	Armstrong	573	21	820-S	42-95820
122	25 Jul 1944	166	1	1	4	Armstrong	573	21	820-S	42-95820
123	26 Jul 1944	166	1	1	6	Walker	572	21	820-S	42-95820
124	28 Jul 1944	166	1	2	4	Boone	573	21	820-S	42-95820
127	31 Jul 1944	166	2	2	4	Boone	573	21	820-S	42-95820
128	01 Aug 1944	166	2	3	1	Armstrong	573	21	820-S	42-95820
131	05 Aug 1944	166	1	2	4	Rutledge	573	21	820-S	42-95820
132	05 Aug 1944	166	1	2	4	Rutledge	573	21	820-S	42-95820
133	06 Aug 1944	166	1	1	3	Baxter	573	21	820-S	42-95820
137	08 Aug 1944	166	2	2	2	Koehl	572	21	820-S	42-95820
192	29 Nov 1944	A-73	2	1	5	Jimenez	573	24	820-S	42-95820
206	25 Dec 1944	A-73	1	1	5	Pancoast	572	58	820-S	42-95820
207	25 Dec 1944	A-73	2	3	2	Shanks	573	24	820-S	42-95820
210	14 Jan 1945	A-73	2	4	3	Spare Ship	573	24	820-S	42-95820
219	06 Feb 1945	A-73	1	3	7	Leonard	574	24	820-S	42-95820
220	08 Feb 1945	A-73	2	2	4	Jimenez	573	24	820-S	42-95820
230	18 Feb 1945	A-73	3	4	4	Spare Ship	573	24	820-S	42-95820
243	03 Mar 1945	A-73	2	3	5	Atwater	573	24	820-S	42-95820
245	04 Mar 1945	A-73	2	1	6	Lentz	573	24	820-S	42-95820
251	11 Mar 1945	A-73	2	3	6	Matthews	573	24	820-S	42-95820