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Aircraft: 238047 

 "FEVER BEAVER" 351st aircraft (100th Photo Archives) 

Flew 145 missions, most by any 100th BG B-17.

NAMES: Fever Beaver
Shady Lady
Melancholy Baby
Little Mommy
 PILOTS:   N/A  N/A
MACR: SQUADRONS: 351 EP-O

NOTES

Aircraft names: Fever Beaver (1.44 to RZI) ---- Shady Lady (Name not painted on the aircraft by Massol Crew but was on A-2 Jackets.)-- Melancholy Baby (Ransom Crew)

HISTORY

1943-11-25   Accepted into inventory
1943-11-25  Cheyenne
1943-12-06  Kearney
1943-12-19  Grenier
1944-01-03  Presque Isle
1944-01-08  Assigned to UK assigned 100th BG, 351st BS
1945-05-29   Transferred to 490th BG-Eye renamed LITTLE MOMMY
1945-07-08   Left 490th BG-Eye for ZOI via Valley Wales
1945-07-21   Returned Zone of the Interior-Independence
1945-11-10  Independence
1945-12-21  Kingman, Arizona
1945-12-21  Kingman, Arizona

Pilot Info

Crew: N/A

Related Info: : N/A, N/A

Comments

    A/C flew 135 missions

PHOTOS:

 "FEVER BEAVER" on hard stand at Thorpe Abbotts. (100th Photo Archives) 

 "FEVER BEAVER" with part of her ground crew: J. Loudenslager, J Pearson, and A. Komosinski. (100th Photo Archives) 

 "FEVER BEAVER" on hard stand at Thorpe Abbotts. (100th Photo Archives) 

 "FEVER BEAVER" 

 FEVER BEAVER nose art. (100th Photo Archives) 

Fever Beaver on Hardstand in March 1945. 

FEVER BEAVER after transfer to 490th Bomb Group in May 1945 and renamed LITTLE MOMMY (courtesy of Eric Swain, 490th BG Historian)
FEVER BEAVER after transfer to 490th Bomb Group in May 1945 and renamed LITTLE MOMMY (courtesy of Eric Swain, 490th BG Historian)
FEVER BEAVER after transfer to 490th Bomb Group in May 1945 and renamed LITTLE MOMMY (courtesy of Eric Swain, 490th BG Historian)
Fever Beaver on airbags (from the collection of Joseph Ciotola)
		
 FEVER BEAVER and ground crew 
 "FEVER BEAVER" with Herman Buhse, TOG on the Streich crew. Streich Crew Information (100th Photo Archives) 
 "FEVER BEAVER" with Leon Schwartz, Navigator on the Streich crew. Streich Crew Information (100th Photo Archives) 
 "FEVER BEAVER" and the Lt. Herman Frank Streich Crew at Thorpe Abbotts. (100th Photo Archives) 
 "FEVER BEAVER" with W. Lawson, Ground Crew Armorer. (100th Photo Archives) 
Skipper II  EP-R and Fever Beaver in March 1945. Photo courtesy of KEEVIN T. MORIARTY/Katy Souther. 
 "FEVER BEAVER" with her Ground Crew: Standing from left: (Last names only) Lautenslag, Armarer, and Chase; Kneeling from left; J G. Pierson, Homosinski and Unknown. (100th Photo Archives)