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Aircraft

Lassie Come Home

Aircraft Serial #: 44-8514

A/C 48514 LASSIE COME HOME

A/C 48514 LASSIE COME HOME. (Photo courtesy of Ernie Havecker and his family: Eileen Rosenthal and Jodi Womack.)

Names: Lassie Come Home

Squadron: 349th | Squadron Marking: CR | Tail Marking: R

Pilot: LT JOHN FURRER

Notes

Lassie Come Home

Crew Information

1 KIA, 3 POW, 5 RMC

History

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DateEvent
October 3, 1944Lincoln
October 7, 1944Accepted into Inventory
October 19, 1944Grenier
October 21, 1944Assigned to UK
December 29, 1944RFO - Pilot bailed out crew then regained control
June 2, 1945Returned Zone of the Interior - Bradley
June 9, 1945South Plains
November 30, 1945Kingman, Arizona
November 30, 1945Kingman, Arizona (Info to be corrected)

Comments

No MACR because aircraft was not lost.
Transferred to Alconbury on May 20, 1945 for ferry back to USA

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