Service File · AircraftB-24D329th Bombardment SquadronTransferred
“Blasted Event”
Serial
41-23682
Tail Code
RE
Radio Call
Q · Queen
Catalogued Missions
1
The Ship
Blasted Event survived Operation Tidal Wave, the low-level raid on the Ploesti oil refineries, Romania, on 1 August 1943, while serving with the 93rd Bomb Group's 329th Bomb Squadron (call letter Q) and later the 409th Bomb Squadron (call letter N).
The aircraft was later transferred to the 406th Bomb Squadron, 801st Bomb Group (call letter R) and modified for Carpetbagger clandestine operations. Its nose wheel collapsed on 24 November 1944, and it was condemned for salvage the same day.
Sortie log.
1 flight · oldest first
Date
Target
Type
Pilot · Crew
28 FEB 1944
Target unrecorded
Lt. Vanderhoek · 11 aboard
→
Photographs.
1 on file
Sources.
§ Provenance
http://www.b24bestweb.com/blastedevent-the3.htm
Website
Joe Baughe · 2023
Website
Serial Number Database
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Plane List
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2nd Air Division · 2nd Air Division Digital Archive · 1944
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