Aircraft information for serial number: 43-34311 | ||||||
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Taxi | Squadron | Serial | Code | Name | Source | Taxi Sheets |
311-P | 573 | 43-34311 | T6-P | Queenie | Original website | 13 |
Aircraft history for serial number: 43-34311 (kindly provided by Paul Clouting). |
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Built at the Glenn L Martin factory at Baltimore, Maryland as a B-26G-5-MA. Accepted by the Army Air Force on 24/6/44. Then flown by New Castle (2nd Ferry Group), Wilmington, Deleware (from 5/7/44), to the 3rd AF staging area at Hunter Field, Savannah, Georgia (from 7/7/44). Next went to Presque Isle, Maine (from 29/7/44), from where the aircraft was flown overseas to the UK via the Northern Ferry Route, departing the USA on 3/8/44. The aircraft record card then lists, GLUE 9AF A (Europe - 9th AF) from 3/8/44, and GLUE 9AF G (Europe - 9th AF) from 13/8/44. Entered combat with the 391st BG / 573rd BS on 5/9/44. The aircraft flew 60 combat missions, then was transferred out of the group in April 1945 when the 391st BG converted to the Douglas A-26. The final entries on the aircraft record card list, GLUE CON SAL FEA on 22/3/46, and, "Condemned overseas, dated 10/5/46". We have no record of what happened to this aircraft from the time it was transferred out of the 391st BG till it was salvaged in March 1946. |
Taxi Sheet listing for serial number: 43-34311 | ||||||||||
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Mission | Date | Station | Box | Flight | Position | Pilot | Squadron | Hardstand | Taxi | Serial |
163 | 10 Sep 1944 | 166 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Doolittle | 573 | 21 | 311-P | 43-34311 |
164 | 11 Sep 1944 | 166 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Doolittle | 573 | 21 | 311-P | 43-34311 |
171 | 27 Sep 1944 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Doolittle | 573 | 21 | 311-P | 43-34311 |
185 | 11 Nov 1944 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 6 | Shoemaker | 573 | 21 | 311-P | 43-34311 |
192 | 29 Nov 1944 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Lloyd | 573 | 31 | 311-P | 43-34311 |
210 | 14 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 3 | 6 | Larsen | 573 | 21 | 311-P | 43-34311 |
212 | 22 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Schaffron | 573 | 21 | 311-P | 43-34311 |
214 | 28 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 6 | Jimenez | 573 | 31 | 311-P | 43-34311 |
215 | 29 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 3 | Prince | 573 | 21 | 311-P | 43-34311 |
216 | 01 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 6 | Adrian | 573 | 21 | 311-P | 43-34311 |
219 | 06 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 3 | 6 | Adrian | 573 | 21 | 311-P | 43-34311 |
220 | 08 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 6 | Morris | 573 | 21 | 311-P | 43-34311 |
261 | 18 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 5 | Shanks | 573 | 21 | 311-P | 43-34311 |