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r w murphy
5/25/2009 10:11:35 PM
I have a 5 by 7 b/w pic of a B-17 from the 401st,tail # 338758 P.In the photo the bomb doors are open and I can see 5 500lb bombs on the way down.There is no nose art that I can see.Can anyone tell me about this B-17. Thank you for your time.


Donald Byers
5/25/2009 11:52:31 PM
http://edwardgdanaii.info:8000/401st/New/history/aircraft.asp?acid=38758

Flew 42 missions before being sent to Kingman for scrap.

If you could scan a copy and send to me it would be grateful.  I belong to the 401st Bomb Group Assn.

Don Byers
donald_byers@sbcglobal.net
Genevieve Fuston Kolarich
9/13/2009 6:12:13 PM
Are you by chance the Murphy who flew with my late brother, Bill Fuston, out of Deenethorpe, England? I am trying to get some factual history to put into a family memory book. I remember your name but am not sure of your crew position--bombadier?  I remember Ralph Hayes was the captain, Generals Seawell and perhaps LeMay the commanders. I vaguely remember stories about the St. George Hotel in Kettering and a fragment bomb. The plane was "swingin' on a star." Sincerely, Gen Kolarich