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Aircraft

Island F for Fox

Aircraft Serial #: 42-97555

Names: Island F for Fox, Dan Boone

Squadron: ??

Pilot: LT JAMES NOBLE

MACR: 07880

Notes

A Pathfinder aircraft from the 95th Bomb Group --- "Island F for Fox" may have been the radio call sign for the aircraft and not a name painted on the nose. Nose Art was Dan Boone Lt Stanley Clark Crew

Crew Information

2 KIA, 9 POW

History

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DateEvent
December 20, 1943Accepted into inventory
December 19, 1943Denver
January 12, 1944Langley
January 28, 1944Mitchell
January 28, 1944Assigned to UK 482nd BG Alconbury
April 1, 1944Transferred to 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath MZ-F
June 7, 1944Transferred to 95th BG-Horham ??-F
June 19, 1944First Operational Sortie
July 28, 1944FTR - Flak - Offilin, ?
July 28, 1944FTR - Flak - Offilin, ?

Comments

Pilot: Lt. James B. Noble -or- Capt. Floyd H. Mason

Additional Photos

297555 PFF Daniel Boone

MZ-F 297555 PFF aircraft originally with the 96th Bomb Group then transferred to the 95th Bomb Group in June 1944 and named Daniel Boone.