B-24J-125-CO 42-110033, nose art Arizona Rambler, 330th Bomb Squadron. MACR 15201 first cited serial 41-110033; HQ 93rd Bomb Group 3rd Indorsement of 30 October 1944 corrected it to 42-110033.
On 29 March 1944, during assembly over Halesworth (Station 365) for Mission 284 to the V-1 site at Watten, France, it collided with B-24H 41-28590 and both crashed on Henham Park, Suffolk. S/Sgt Kenneth L. Gurney, radio operator, bailed out and survived. The other nine men on this ship were killed. Bombs later exploded in the wreck during rescue.
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.
From the ground at Henham Park on 29 March 1944: two 93rd Liberators locked together in the assembly, one breaking in half, with bombs going off in the parkland as rescue parties worked.