“$ 64 "?"”
Col. Fred Sparrevohn USAF (Ret.) (Pilot) One day when I returned from a bombing mission over Germany, the Crew Chief met me at the airplane and said his airplane does not have a name. I responded that's a $64 question! The next time I came out to the airplane, she was named. These pictures were taken the day my navigator and I finished our thirtieth mission. Incidentally, the airplane was shot down on its very next mission, before the pictures were even developed.
The aircraft was one of the original B-24s assigned to the 701st Bomb Squadron, 445th Bomb Group, arriving in England on 4 December 1943. By 28 December 1943 it had been transferred to the 330th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group; the squadron's AG fuselage code was added in March 1944.
The aircraft crashed and burned on 12 May 1944 at the emergency landing field at Woodbridge, Suffolk. Bombardier Charles E. Aton, flying his tenth mission, was injured in the crash, suffering a broken femur when a machine gun turret fell on his leg; he was hospitalized in England before being evacuated home for further treatment.
Sortie Log
A sortie is a single combat mission flown by an aircraft and its crew. The entries below document known sorties associated with this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. This list represents verified flights but may not be complete; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.