Survived the summer of 1944 as a 788th plane, and in December of 1944 was transferred to the MTO with the 859th BG. One of the last planes of the war to be shot down, by a JU88G, on the night of 16/17 April 1945 near Tisnov, Yugoslavia. The crew bailed out successfully and were later returned to base by local partisans.
Pictured left as the artwork appeared at Harrington.
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Newsletter article, Dec 1996 (14Meg PDF).