GLORIA MARIE NEW ORLEANS

Serial No.:  44-42487 Model: B-24M-35-CO



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DATA SHEET

 

 

 

No.

139

 

 

 

 


SERIAL NO.:


44-42487

MOST POPULAR NOSE ART NAME:

GLORIA MARIE
NEW ORLEANS

 

 

 

 

MODEL:

B-24M-35-CO

MFR:

Consolidated-San Diego

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTRACTOR'S NO.:

5323

 

 

 

 

INITIAL MFG DATE:

MFG COMPLETION DATE:

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST FLIGHT DATE:

MOD CENTER DATE:

 

 

 

MOD CENTER PLACE :

 

USAAF ACCEPTANCE DATE:

 

 

TO STAGING AREA DATE:

 

STAGING PLACE:

 

OVERSEAS FLIGHT DATE:

 

DEPARTURE PLACE:

 

 

 

 

 

OVERSEAS ARRIVAL DATE:

 

DESTINATION:

 

 

 

 

 

MOD COMPLETED

 

 

 

OVERSEAS:

 

OVERSEAS MOD PLACE :

 

 

 

 

 

ASSIGNMENT:

90/321, On Loan to 528

ASSIGNMENT

 

 

 

   DATE:

02/1945

STATION:

Murtha Strip, Mindoro

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST MISSION :

02/24/1945

WHERE (1ST MISSION ):

Takao , Formosa

 

 

 

 

NO. OF MISSIONS:

2 PH

TERMINATION DATE:

 

 

 

 

 

WHY TERMINATED:

Temporary Assignment, Transferred Back to 90th BG

WHERE TERMINATED:

 

 

 

 

 

 

STRICKEN OFF CHARGE:

 

WHERE REMOVED:

 

 

        NOTES:              



 

AIRCRAFT RECORD CARD

 
Nose Art: GLORIA MARIE NEW ORLEANS
Serial No.: 44-42487
Model: B-24M-35-CO
 

 




MAINTENANCE CREW

 
Nose Art: GLORIA MARIE NEW ORLEANS
Serial No.: 44-42487
Model: B-24M-35-CO


 

SSN

Rank

Name

Crew Chief(s):

 

 

Not Available in Current Records

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SSN

Rank

Name

Mechanic(s):

 

 

Not Available in Current Records

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

                Notes:    



MISSION RECORD



 

GLORIA MARIE NEW ORLEANS

Serial No.:  44-42487 Model: B-24M-35-CO

 

 

 

GLORIA MARIE NEW ORLEANS is one moniker that appears nowhere in a surviving record of nicknames assigned to 90th BG bombers.  By 1944, the ‘Jolly Rogers," who had begun as the only Liberator group in the South Pacific, were beginning to get plenty of company.  As for the olive-drab paint scheme that had become so familiar, it had begun to give way to what is commonly, if somewhat misleadingly, called natural metal finish at around the same time.  (Robert F. Dorr)

 

Source:  Robert F. Dorr, B-24 LIBERATOR UNITS OF THE PACIFIC WAR, Osprey Publishing, Oxford , 1999, 
ISBN 1-85532-781-3, p. 28.

 



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