“Big Noise”

Big Noise, featuring nose art of the Walt Disney character Donald Duck, served with the 330th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group under call letters A and H. The aircraft aborted the low-level Operation Tidal Wave raid on the Ploesti oil refineries, Romania, on 1 August 1943.

According to a list compiled by Adrian Streather, Big Noise landed at Dübendorf, Switzerland on 16 March 1944. The aircraft did not return to Allied control and remained interned in Switzerland. Pilot: Richard J. Pettit. MACR 3531.