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Jack Cook
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B-17G s/n 42-31684 463rd BG 774th BS "Joker" shot down Jul 7, 1944.over Vicany, Germany.
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My late dad was copilot with the 463rd...at the very end of the war.
His squadron was the 774th (the one with yellow rudder & trim).

We still have his A-2 with the "Swoose Group"" Patch and a hand-typed checklist in the pocket, laminated with two thin sheets of plastic stapled together (the staples are now very rusty).

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don't you mean the 447th bomb group?? they had the yellow most distinctly.

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Jack Cook
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No, he means the 463rd BG which had a yellow rudder has a sqd marking.
The 463rd was called the 'Swoose Group' because the group CO was Col Frank Kurtz former pilot of the B-17D "The Swoose".

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