| Aircraft Details for serial number: 43-34390 - Note: Squadron and Codes shown are the most frequent non-blank values | ||||
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| Taxi Code | Squadron | Serial | Code | Missions |
| 390-L | 574 | 43-34390 | 4L-L | 46 |
| Aircraft history for serial number: 43-34390 (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 17/7/44. Then flown by New Castle (2nd Ferry Group), Wilmington, Deleware (from 18/7/44), to the 3rd AF staging area at Hunter Field, Savannah, Georgia (from 19/7/44). Next went to Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, Florida (from 1/8/44), from where the aircraft was flown overseas via the Southern Ferry Route, departing the USA on 2/8/44. The record card then lists, DUKO A (Italy - 12th AF) on 2/8/44, and, DUKO G (Italy - 12th AF) on 13/8/44. Entered combat with the 391st BG / 574th BS on 25/1/45. Flew 44 combat missions till April 1945, when it was transferred out of the group when the 391st BG converted to the Douglas A-26. The final entries on the aircraft record card list, GLUE CON SAL FEA on 29/3/46, and, "Condemned overseas, dated 10/5/46". |
| Loadlist Taxi Sheet listing for serial number: 43-34390 | |||||||||||
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| Mission | Date | Station | Box | Flight | Position | Pilot | A/C Squadron | Hardstand | Taxi Code | Serial | Status |
| 213 | 25 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 1 | 3 | Mozian, J. | 574 | 390- | 43-34390 | ||
| 215 | 29 Jan 1945 | A-73 | 0 | 1 | 3 | Ehrhart, H. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 217 | 02 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 1 | 4 | Ackland, G. G. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 219 | 06 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 0 | 1 | 3 | Fields, W. E. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 220 | 08 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Ehrhart, H. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 221 | 09 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 3 | 6 | Fields, W. E. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 223 | 10 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 6 | Leonard, S. S. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | flak |
| 225 | 14 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 6 | Fields, W. E. | 574 | RW | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 226 | 14 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 7 | Fields, W. E. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 228 | 16 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 2 | Hocker, C. F. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 229 | 18 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Macklin, P. G. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 230 | 19 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Leonard, S. S. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 231 | 21 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Johnson, C. G. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 232 | 22 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 3 | 1 | 5 | Henage, G. F. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | flak |
| 234 | 23 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Spears, R. T. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 236 | 24 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 4 | Fields, W. E. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 238 | 25 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 5 | Lepinski, F. L. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 239 | 28 Feb 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Anderson, A. D. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 240 | 01 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 0 | 1 | 3 | Shanks, L. H. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 241 | 02 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Mozian, J. | 574 | RW | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 242 | 02 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 5 | Fields, W. E. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | aborted |
| 243 | 03 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 0 | 1 | 6 | Hamilton, S. J. | 574 | RW | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 244 | 03 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 0 | 1 | 2 | Greene, B. F. | 574 | RW | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 246 | 05 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 5 | Martin, B. M. | 574 | RW | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 247 | 06 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Laman, H. C. | 574 | RW | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 248 | 08 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 4 | 2 | Spare, | RW | 390-L | 43-34390 | spare | |
| 256 | 15 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Martorani, M. A. | 574 | RW | 390-L | 43-34390 | flak |
| 257 | 16 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Ellis, H. F. | 574 | 40 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 258 | 17 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 5 | Edwards, A. L. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 261 | 18 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 4 | Richmond, M. O. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 262 | 19 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 4 | 4 | Ackland, G. G. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 263 | 20 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 1 | Richmond, M. O. | 574 | 390-L | 43-34390 | ||
| 264 | 22 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Richmond, M. O. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 266 | 23 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Spears, R. T. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 267 | 23 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Bischoff, J. R. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 268 | 24 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Spangler, R. B. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 270 | 25 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 4 | Main, S. L. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 271 | 25 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Lantz, G. R. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 272 | 26 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Sherwood, N. W. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 273 | 28 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 3 | 1 | Proctor, R. M. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 274 | 30 Mar 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 1 | 4 | Hillier, F. O. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | flak |
| 280 | 08 Apr 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 1 | 6 | Lawson, M. A. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 281 | 08 Apr 1945 | A-73 | 2 | 3 | 6 | Daniels, D. E. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | |
| 282 | 09 Apr 1945 | A-73 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Appleton, W. N. | 574 | 43 | 390-L | 43-34390 | flak |