Aircraft information for serial number: 42-95866 | ||||||
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Taxi | Squadron | Serial | Code | Name | Source | Taxi Sheets |
856-X | 574 | 42-95866 | 4L-X | EIGHT BALL (8-BALL) | Taxi sheets. Typo for 866-X ? | 1 |
866-X | 574 | 42-95866 | 4L-X | EIGHT BALL (8-BALL) | Original website | 25 |
886-X | 574 | 42-95866 | 4L-X | EIGHT BALL (8-BALL) | Taxi sheets. Typo for 866-X. | 1 |
Aircraft history for serial number: 42-95866 (kindly provided by Paul Clouting). |
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Built at the Glenn L Martin factory at Baltimore, Maryland as a B-26B-50-MA. Accepted by the Army Air Force on 18/11/43. Next flown by New Castle (2nd Ferry Group), Wilmington, Deleware (from 13/12/43), to Raleigh-Durham Army Air Field, North Carolina (ATC) from 14/12/43, and then to the 3rd AF staging area at Hunter Field, Savannah, Georgia (no date given). Flown overseas to the UK via the Southern Ferry Route (Listed as Carribean Wing), departing the USA on 11/1/44. The aircraft record card then lists, SOXO A (Europe - 8th AF) on 11/1/44, and SOXO R (Europe - 8th AF) from 24/2/44. Flew 79 combat missions, serving with the 391st BG from 17/6/44, until the group converted to the A-26 Invader in April 1945. Pilot H D Heron. The final entry on the aircraft record card lists, GLUE CON SAL FEA on 19/12/45. |
Picture listing for serial number: 42-95866 | ||
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Picture Title | Picture Category | Serial |
Don Wolfe? ("8-Ball") Crew | Crews | 42-95866 |
"8 Ball" | Nose Art | 42-95866 |
Wolfe | Crews | 42-95866 |
Tom Deja #1 | People | 42-95866 |
Tom Deja #2 | People | 42-95866 |
Taxi Sheet listing for serial number: 42-95866 | ||||||||||
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Mission | Date | Station | Box | Flight | Position | Pilot | Squadron | Hardstand | Taxi | Serial |
100 | 20 Jun 1944 | 166 | 1 | 3 | 6 | Wolfe | 574 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
106 | 25 Jun 1944 | 166 | 2 | 1 | 3 | Wolfe | 574 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
109 | 06 Jul 1944 | 166 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Wolfe | 574 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
110 | 07 Jul 1944 | 166 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Wolfe | 574 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
114 | 12 Jul 1944 | 166 | 2 | 2 | 6 | Threadgill | 574 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
119 | 19 Jul 1944 | 166 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Wolfe | 574 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
121 | 24 Jul 1944 | 166 | 1 | 3 | 6 | Wolfe | 574 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
124 | 28 Jul 1944 | 166 | 2 | 4 | 2 | Spare Ship | 574 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
131 | 05 Aug 1944 | 166 | 2 | 2 | 6 | Hanish | 575 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
132 | 05 Aug 1944 | 166 | 2 | 2 | 6 | Hanish | 575 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
133 | 06 Aug 1944 | 166 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Jacobi | 575 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
137 | 08 Aug 1944 | 166 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Wolfe | 574 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
163 | 10 Sep 1944 | 166 | 2 | 4 | 2 | Spare Ship | 574 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
171 | 27 Sep 1944 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 6 | Kloepfer | 575 | 31 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
182 | 03 Nov 1944 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Evans | 574 | 47 | 866-X | 42-95866 |
206 | 25 Dec 1944 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 3 | Proctor | 574 | RW | 856-X | 42-95866 |
207 | 25 Dec 1944 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 3 | Proctor | 574 | RW | 866-X | 42-95866 |
209 | 01 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 5 | Proctor | 574 | RW | 866-X | 42-95866 |
210 | 14 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Proctor | 574 | RW | 866-X | 42-95866 |
212 | 22 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 4 | Proctor | 574 | RW | 866-X | 42-95866 |
219 | 06 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Proctor | 574 | RW | 866-X | 42-95866 |
220 | 08 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Proctor | 574 | RW | 866-X | 42-95866 |
230 | 18 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Mclaurin | 574 | RW | 866-X | 42-95866 |
251 | 11 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Henage | 574 | RW | 866-X | 42-95866 |
255 | 14 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 6 | Lawson | 574 | RW | 866-X | 42-95866 |
261 | 18 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 5 | Martorani | 574 | RW | 866-X | 42-95866 |