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Contributor - Alan Griffith, B24 best web

Saturday, February 23, 2013

List of Liberators





Using Mission Reports dated from May 2, 1944 to July 31, 1944, and B-24 bestweb, I was able to find and name some of the planes flying alongside the Pistol Pakin Mamma from Kwajalein.   

(August 8, 1944 the squadron moved from Kwajalein to Saipan where they lived in tents set up in a sugar cane field with mud a foot deep.)

Liberators in numerical order are:

42-72     971         Duckin Ducklin
42-72     972         Unknown/unnamed
42-72     973         Come Closer
42-72     974         Punjab
42-72     975         Pacific Avenger (1)
42-72     976         Bomb Baby
42-72     989         Pistol Pakin Mamma
42-72     993         Lemon 
42-73     282         Fools Paradise
42-73     452         ‘452 as listed on B24bw
42-100   227         Chambermaid
42-100   282         Unknown/unnamed
42-100   376         Dottie Anne
42-109   940         Swing shift
42-109   954         Our Baby
42-110   145         Unknown/unnamed
44-40     556         Stormy Weather

Pacific Avenger II is not actually shown in action during this time frame but is important since the same crew from P. A. (1) would fly her.
44-40     XXX        PacificAvenger II

2 comments:

  1. Hi,
    My father Larry Russell, Sr. flew the Pacific Avenger at some point:
    http://www.b24bestweb.com/pacificavenger4.htm
    His main plane was My Akin' Rod.
    Regards,
    Larry Russell, Jr.

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    1. Fantastic! Thank you for the information. All these guys were heroes!

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