Chief Manatee served with the 409th Squadron and was lost over Germany on July 21, 1944, under pilot James N. Ware. MACR 7275.
W.D. Woodson, A Flight Commander in the 409th, named this new B-24D Chief Manatee after his crew chief and his home county in Florida, after flying his first ten missions — six of them on Teggie Ann.
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.
A 409th flight commander recalls early missions at the helm of Teggie Ann and later work in Chief Manatee, including the Oslo-Kjeller strike.