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B-17G-65-VE 44-8445 crashed a few miles from here on the 25th November 1944, in what is now the grounds of the British American Tobacco Company factory at Corby, Northants, England.
Details of the crash are fragmentary, noted as "310th Ferry Squadron, Burtonwood. Bounced landing at Deenethorpe, overshot and crashed".
The Overseas Air Accident Report index gives one Jimmie Mah as pilot and lists it as "Killed. Mid-air Colllision."

Does anyone have any other details of the crash or aircraft whatsoever?

All the best,
PB

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Paul Bellamy

401BG Association Historian & Honorary Life Member
401BG Historical Society (UK) Member
1st Air Division HQ Historical Society (UK) Founder Member
Director of Archives & Collections, Airfield Research Group Archive, Alconbury
RAF Alconbury Base Historian

All Freeman and Osborne show is del Dallas 18/9/44; Hunter 5/10/44; Grenier 16/10/44;
ass 8th AF 7/11/44; sal n/b/d 25/11/44.


Steve

Thanks Steve,

That's a little more to work with.
I'm presuming the pilot's body was returned to the USA after the war as he doesn't show up in the ABMC database.
I'm also guessing the aircraft was intended to have been a replacement for the 401BG at Deenethorpe, and from the serial number may have been a PFF ship.

All the best,
PB

_________________
Paul Bellamy

401BG Association Historian & Honorary Life Member
401BG Historical Society (UK) Member
1st Air Division HQ Historical Society (UK) Founder Member
Director of Archives & Collections, Airfield Research Group Archive, Alconbury
RAF Alconbury Base Historian