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The wreck of the U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-17F-85-BO Flying Fortress, s/n 42-30037, squadron code "BK-F". This aircraft was assigned to the 546th Bombardment Squadron, 384th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, based at Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire (UK). It was shot down on 26 June 1943 on a mission to Villacoublay, France. Pieces of this aircraft were displayed in a museum estabilshed at Paris-Nanterre by the occupying German forces. The 384th BG flew their first combat mission as a group on 22 June 1943, bombing automobile parts warehouses in Antwerpen, Belguim. After the sixth mission the group had lost thirty-five of its original thirty-six aircraft.[1]
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