Continued research on 41-11538 to try to determine the fuselage code it would have been assigned.
I recently received an accident report from 41-11537 (the first of three accidents on record for this aircraft) which was also based at Greenville AAF, MS. The report contains four photographs of the accident aircraft. One photo was taken from an angle which included the fuselage code on the RH side of the empennage, of course, the image clarity is not great due to copies/microfiche/etc. transfers so the fuselage code is a bit obscured. See here;
BT-13A s/n 41-11537 - 27 Feb 1943 Accident Report pg 11 by
Greenville Flyers, on Flickr
The accident report contains a page from the "FLIGHT REPORT - OPERATIONS" for the aircraft. On that page, there is an annotation in the upper RH corner of "(824)".
BT-13A s/n 41-11537 - 27 Feb 1943 Accident Report pg 6 by
Greenville Flyers, on Flickr
Looking back at the photo of the accident aircraft above, based on the visible portion of the fuselage code, one could surmise that it was indeed GR824. ("GR" was Greenville AAF, MS, fuselage code).
So my first question to those familiar with these accident report documents, particularly the "FLIGHT REPORT - OPERATIONS", has anyone else seen a correlation of the number in the upper RH corner of the page to the fuselage code assigned to the aircraft at that base? In the example provided above, the "(824)" is on the airplane model line, thus I suspect that they may have been putting the fuselage code there as a convenient place on the page. Given that, it may have been that Greenville was doing this, while other bases were not. Just a hunch, but wondering if anyone else has seen this or been able to confirm this based on photos in a report that clearly match the number in question on the "FLIGHT REPORT - OPERATIONS" page.
My second question also pertains to the "FLIGHT REPORT - OPERATIONS" page. Does anyone know if there is a location where these "FLIGHT REPORT - OPERATIONS" can be retrieved? A large part of my research is to identify pilots who flew 41-11538, hence this report would be a gold mine of personnel information for pilots who flew the airplane. There are no accidents for 41-11538, thus that option is nonexistent.
Thanks,
Jordan