SHE'ASTA

Serial No.: 42-40512 Model: B-24D-65-CO


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DATA SHEET

 

 

No.

024

 

 

 

 


SERIAL NO.:


42-40512

MOST POPULAR NOSE ART NAME:


SHE 'ASTA

 

 

 

 

MODEL:

B-24D-65-CO

MFR:

Consolidated-San Diego

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTRACTOR'S NO.:

1589

 

 

 

 

INITIAL MFG DATE:

03/03/1943

MFG COMPLETION DATE:

03/15/1943

 

 

 

 

FIRST FLIGHT DATE:

03/17/1943

MOD CENTER DATE:

03/21/1943

 

 

MOD CENTER PLACE:

Tucson

USAAF ACCEPTANCE DATE:

03/18/1943

 

 

TO STAGING AREA DATE:

04/18/1943

STAGING PLACE:

Topeka

OVERSEAS FLIGHT DATE:

04/26/1943

DEPARTURE PLACE:

Hamilton Field, CA

 

 

 

 

OVERSEAS ARRIVAL DATE:

05/02/1943

DESTINATION:

Amberly Field, Brisbane, AUS

 

 

 

 

MOD COMPLETED

 

 

 

OVERSEAS:

 

OVERSEAS MOD PLACE:

 

 

 

 

 

ASSIGNMENT:

380/530/531/530

ASSIGNMENT

Initial Deployment, In  531

 

 

   DATE:

07/09/1943

STATION:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST MISSION:

06/11/1943

WHERE (1ST MISSION):

Koepang, Timor

 

 

 

 

NO. OF MISSIONS:

28 AU

TERMINATION DATE:

12/18/1943

 

 

 

 

WHY TERMINATED:

Transferred to RAAF, A72-5 (03/03/1944)

WHERE TERMINATED:

Townsville, Australia

 

 

 

 

 

STRICKEN OFF CHARGE:

03/03/1944

WHERE REMOVED:

Townsville

                NOTES:    Salvaged by RAAF at Tocumwal in February 1949.

                          Cunningham transferred from 530th to 531st and then back again.
Apparently took his ship with him when he moved.

 

AIRCRAFT RECORD CARD

 
Nose Art: SHE'ASTA
Serial No.: 42-40512
Model: B-24D-65-CO
 

 



MAINTENANCE CREW

 
Nose Art: SHE'ASTA
Serial No.: 42-40512
Model: B-24D-65-CO

 

 

 

SSN

Rank

Name

Crew Chief(s):

17033911

M/Sgt

Howard M. Thomason (530)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SSN

Rank

Name

Mechanic(s):

33200668

Sgt

Herman R. Benchoff (530)

 

34330556

Sgt

James T. Mixon (530)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                    Notes:    



MISSION RECORD
 

SHE'ASTA

Serial No.:  42-40512 Model: B-24D-65-CO

 

 Source:  Horton, Best in the Southwest.

 

 

Right Side


 Source:  Horton/Horton, King of the Heavies, p. 148.

 

 

Source:  Livingstone, Under the Southern Cross, p. 89.

 

 

 Source:  Horton, Best in the Southwest, p. 57.


 

 

Paul Olson, Navigator, is on the left,
with his Pilot, Clete Cunningham. 
The man in the copilot's window is unidentified.

Source:  Horton, Best in the Southwest, p. 473


 

Clete Cunningham's Crew
Source:  Horton/Horton, King of the Heavies, p. 26; Horton, Best in the Southwest, p. 90.


 

Left Side

 

 Source:  Livingstone, Under the Southern Cross, p. 88.

 

 

Source:  Livingstone, Under the Southern Cross, p. 83.

 

 

Source:  Livingstone, Under the Southern Cross, p. 82.

 

 

 Source:  Joe Dally Collection.

 

 

Source:  Horton/Horton, King of the Heavies, p. 149;
Horton, Best in the Southwest, p. 94.

 

 

Source:  Horton, Best in the Southwest, p. 473.

 

 

 Source:  Horton/Horton, King of the Heavies, p. 36.

 

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