Posted By Vic Walzel on April 02, 2006 at 17:23:41:
In Reply to: 452nd Bomber Group Deopham Green posted by David Crawford on April 02, 2006 at 16:28:21:
: Good Evening from the U.K.,
: I wonder if we have an expert of this site who can provide me with the following details. I am looking for information on a 452nd B.G. aircraft the Passionate Witch, This was a B17G-30-DL, with the serial No. 42-38124. The information I am looking for is the 728th Squadron code letters, I know that it would start 9Z-? , I can not find the final part of this code, which I believe would have been painted on the tail fin.
: Thanking you in advance for any help.
: Regards
: David Crawford
: (The Blck Swan & the Merlin fly together)
: Hi David,
I believe you may be overlooking the "-" as the final part. Project Bits and Pieces says the squadrons were identified by a "-" or a "+" adjacent to the R?T letter in the vertical stabilizer in the summer of 1944.
Other information given is that 42-31824 was not named. "Passionate Witch" is one of the B-17s in the 452nd Bomb Group that had an unknown serial number. It was hard to keep all the names and serial numbers together since names were not official in any sense of the word. Many planes had several names.
Vic