Aircraft information for serial number: 43-34451 | ||||||
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Taxi | Squadron | Serial | Code | Name | Source | Taxi Sheets |
451-D | 573 | 43-34451 | T6-D | Original website | 14 |
Aircraft history for serial number: 43-34451 (kindly provided by Paul Clouting). |
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Built at the Glenn L Martin factory at Baltimore, Maryland as a B-26G-10-MA. Accepted by the Army Air Force on 31/7/44. Then flown by Baltimore, Maryland (ATC) from 3/8/44, to the 3rd AF staging area at Hunter Field, Savannah, Georgia (from 3/8/44). Next went to Dow Field, Bangor, Maine (from 11/8/44), from where the aircraft was flown overseas to the 9th AF in the UK via the Northern Ferry Route, departing the USA on 12/8/44. The aircraft record card then lists, GLUE 9AF A (Europe - 9th AF) from 12/8/44, and GLUE 9AF G (Europe - 9th AF) from 21/8/44. Entered combat with the 391st BG / 573rd BS on 2/11/44. Survived the Ahrweiler mission of 23/12/44, flown by Capt. James May. The aircraft flew 50 combat missions till April 1945, then was transferred out of the group when the 391st BG converted to the Douglas A-26. The final entry on the aircraft record card lists, GLUE CON SAL FEA on 30/3/46. We do not know what happened to this aircraft after it was transferred out of the 391st BG, but it was not salvaged till March 1946. |
Taxi Sheet listing for serial number: 43-34451 | ||||||||||
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Mission | Date | Station | Box | Flight | Position | Pilot | Squadron | Hardstand | Taxi | Serial |
185 | 11 Nov 1944 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 7 | Dobda | 573 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
203 | 23 Dec 1944 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 1 | May | 573 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
209 | 01 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Walter | 573 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
210 | 14 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 4 | 1 | Spare Lead | 573 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
212 | 22 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 4 | 1 | Spare Lead | 573 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
214 | 28 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Dent | 573 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
215 | 29 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Jimenez | 573 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
216 | 01 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Lloyd | 573 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
219 | 06 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 1 | Dent | 573 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
223 | 10 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 4 | 1 | Spare Lead | 573 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
251 | 11 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 4 | Mosher | 573 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
255 | 14 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 5 | Gould | 575 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
261 | 18 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Shoemaker | 573 | 23 | 451-D | 43-34451 |
265 | 22 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Mosher | 573 | 28 | 451-D | 43-34451 |