447th Bomb Group Association
44-8393
44-8393 Y, photographed at bombs-away by
John Kirkwood (Mustaleski crew) on the April 8 mission to Plauen
No. 44-8393, a B-17G-60-VE, was assigned to the 447th squadron on October 10, 1944.
No. 393 (no name known) was equipped with H2X radar from the time of its delivery to the 447th, and flew in the squadron lead position on 31 missions with all four squadrons.
It returned to the US on October 15, 1945, and was sold for scrap at Walnut Ridge on January 29, 1946.
Combat Missions
| No. | DATE | TARGET | PILOT |
| 1 | 11/21/1944 | KOBLENZ | Tietjen |
| 2 | 12/10/1944 | KOBLENZ | Wiegerink |
| 3 | 12/12/1944 | DORMSTADT | Wiegerink |
| 4 | 12/18/1944 | MAINZ | Tietjen |
| 5 | 12/24/1944 | BABENHAUSEN | Moore |
| 6 | 12/28/1944 | KOBLENZ | Tietjen |
| 7 | 12/31/1944 | COGNAC | Harmon |
| 8 | 1/3/1945 | KOBLENZ | Tietjen |
| 9 | 1/5/1945 | WAXWEILER | Henningsen |
| 10 | 1/6/1945 | WORMS | Tietjen |
| 11 | 1/7/1945 | PADERBORN-COLOGNE | Henningsen |
| 12 | 1/14/1945 | MADGEBURG | Old |
| 13 | 1/15/1945 | AUGSBURG | Moore |
| 14 | 1/16/1945 | DESSAU | Old |
| 15 | 1/21/1945 | MANNHEIM | Mitchell |
| 16 | 2/3/1945 | BERLIN | Harmon |
| 17 | 2/7/1945 | CHEMNITZ | Old |
| 18 | 2/14/1945 | WESEL | Tietjen |
| 19 | 2/18/1945 | WESEL | Harmon |
| 20 | 2/23/1945 | CRAILSHEIM | Hatfield |
| 21 | 3/2/1945 | DRESDEN | Henningsen |
| 22 | 3/3/1945 | BRUNSWICK | Lubinsky |
| 23 | 3/7/1945 | DATTELN | Lubinsky |
| 24 | 3/20/1945 | HAMBURG | Stanley |
| 25 | 3/21/1945 | WITTMUNDHAFEN | Nagle |
| 26 | 3/22/1945 | HELBERT AREA | Brill |
| 27 | 3/28/1945 | HANOVER | Gillespie |
| 28 | 4/4/1945 | KIEL | McClanahan |
| 29 | 4/7/1945 | SCHWERIN | Neal |
| 30 | 4/8/1945 | PLAUEN | Mayhew |
| 31 | 4/9/1945 | NEWBURG A/F | Brill |