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B-24D · 329th Bombardment Squadron · 93rd BG (H)

“Bucket Of Bolts / First Sergeant”

42-40127
Scrapped
Fuselage Code
RE
Radio Call Letter
BBaker

Originally Bucket Of Bolts, this aircraft served with the 93rd's 330th Squadron and then the 329th Squadron, surviving the low-level Ploesti raid of August 1, 1943. In February 1944 she transferred to the 458th Bomb Group's 754th Squadron, was renamed First Sergeant, and became that group's first formation assembly ship. She was destroyed in a ground fire at Horsham St. Faith, England on May 27, 1944, when a Very signal pistol discharged and ignited stored flares.

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