B-24H-1-DT serial number 41-28590 (Douglas-Tulsa production line #182) was transferred from the 713th Bomb Squadron, 448th Bomb Group (call letter Y) to the 328th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group (call letter J).
On 29 March 1944, the aircraft crashed and exploded at Henham Park, Suffolk, England after a mid-air collision with 42-110033. Pilot: Robert L. McFetrich. MACR 15212.
This was the 93rd B-24 Reynolds saw sliced in two over Henham Park on 29 March 1944. Only its two side gunners survived; the other 18 crewmen on the two ships were killed. A 2,000 lb bomb later exploded in the wreck while airmen from the nearby base were trying to put out the flames.
Articles, columns, and letters naming this aircraft in the 2nd Air Division Association journals and the group’s own newsletters. The summaries below are ours; the pieces themselves belong to the writers and publications that produced them.
From the ground at Henham Park on 29 March 1944: two 93rd Liberators locked together in the assembly, one breaking in half, with bombs going off in the parkland as rescue parties worked.