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B-24 bomber "HOT AS HELL" And Crew

The B-24 bomber "HOT AS HELL" and crew in China during WWII. This B-24D, serial #42-40075, was assigned to the 425th Bomb Squadron, one of the original planes of the 308th Bomb Group making the trip from USA to Kunming in April 1943. By November, following several missions and many resupply trips across the Hump for fuel, munitions and spare parts, she was deemed obsolete and replaced with a new B-24J. Converted to transport configuration and transferred to Air Transport Command the plane continued to fly
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Mathias Quackenbush, of Albany, NY, is kneeling in the front row, far left. (Thanks J. Sefcik!)

The B-24 bomber "HOT AS HELL" and crew in China during WWII.

This B-24D, serial #42-40075, was assigned to the 425th Bomb Squadron, one of the original planes of the 308th Bomb Group making the trip from USA to Kunming in April 1943. By November, following several missions and many resupply trips across the Hump for fuel, munitions and spare parts, she was deemed obsolete and replaced with a new B-24J. Converted to transport configuration and transferred to Air Transport Command the plane continued to fly material over the Hump as a transport. It was salvaged out in India in Nov 1945.

 

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