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| '''Paul Bellamy''' <br/><br/><div class='poster-info'><img src='/public/Attachments/ForumNew.MainPage/Paul Bellamy.jpg' /></div><br/>1/24/2009 8:35:52 PM 
| <blockquote>Serial Number: 42-37835   <br/> Model: B-17G   <br/> Manufacturer: Douglas Aircraft, Long Beach, California   <br/> Production Block: B-17G-15-DL   <br/> Delivered by Manufacturer: 16 Sep 1943 at Long Beach   <br/> Squadron Code: SC-J (612th)   <br/> Nickname: Channel Express   <br/> Date Assigned to 401st BG: 5 Nov 1943   <br/> Date Arrived at Station 128: 19 Nov 1943 (one of the original 401st aircraft that landed at Deenethorpe)   <br/> Date Lost: 22 Dec 1943   <br/> Mission Lost: Osnabruck   <br/> Nature of Loss: Abandoned by Crew   <br/>   <br/> Other Details: <br/> While over the target "Channel Express" was struck by a bomb dropped from another group, causing considerable damage to the controls.  The pilot, Lt Stuart E. Smith, managed to bring the aircraft back to Deenethorpe where the crew bailed out before heading it for Germany on automatic pilot.  The plane in fact didn't go all that many miles from base, crashing near Washingley, Huntingdonshire (about TEN miles due east of the airfield).</blockquote><br/> <br/> Three photo's of the wreck being salvaged by AAF recovery crews, as she lay in a field near Peterborough, from the NARA files:<br/> <img class='ForumMaxImgWidth' src='http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k227/ramc181/401%20pix/42378351.jpg' /><br/> <br/> <img class='ForumMaxImgWidth' src='http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k227/ramc181/401%20pix/42378352.jpg' /><br/> <br/> <img class='ForumMaxImgWidth' src='http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k227/ramc181/401%20pix/42378353.jpg' /> <br/> <br/> All the best,<br/> Paul <br/><br/>Paul Bellamy<br/> <img class='ForumMaxImgWidth' src='/public/Attachments/ForumNew.MainPage/resource1.png' /><br/> 
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| '''EDanaII''' <br/><br/><div class='poster-info'><img src='/public/Attachments/ForumNew.MainPage/EDanaII.jpg' /></div><br/>1/25/2009 12:36:16 PM 
| All I can say is... "ouch!" <br/><br/><a href='/p2769.ashx'><img class='ForumMaxImgWidth' src='/public/Attachments/ForumNew.MainPage/wmSig401st150p.gif' /></a><br/> <br/> 
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