487th Bomb Group (H)
Station 137 - Lavenham, Suffolk, UK
22-Sep-43 to 7-Nov-45

B-17 - #43-38141 839th squadron
26-Nov-44 - Shot down while being flown by Davidson crew. The crew had left the aircraft by parachute, after which it eventually crashed in Udenhout, the Netherlands. As that area was just liberated by the Allied armies, it was left and was 'stripped' by Dutch civilians.
(photo provided by Paul Pouwels)


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