USAAF 41-31688 Martin B-26B-20-MA Marauder

USAAF serial number S/N: 41-31688 Martin B-26B-20-MA Marauder

1941031688, 41-31688 Martin B-26B-20-MA Marauder Fate: Unit: 387BG556BS-559BS+1PS Remarks: 387BG556BS (Chipping Ongar) - Tiger Tails Code:FW-D named: Stinky +1st Pathfinder Squadron (Provisional) Name:'Terrible Turk Transferred From 387BG559BS (Chipping Ongar) - Tiger Tails Code:TQ-S, Disposal:

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Stinky
Martin B-26B-20-MA Marauder
Sn: 41-31688
Squadron Code: FW-D

First Sortie	Last Sortie	Total
15 Aug 43	18 Apr 45	175

Crew Chief: T/Sgt. William Gault
Asst. Crew Chief: Sgt. Charles W. Davis

Stinky was one of the original cadre of B-26s that formed the 556th Bomb. Squadron. The crew to which the aircraft was originally assigned and that flew the aircraft from the United States to England was:

Pilot CP B/N EG ROG AG

2nd Lt. 2nd Lt. 2nd Lt. PFC S/Sgt. Pvt.

Robert S. Jones Herbert L. Abrahamson Carl B. Cooper Harold R. Gehrke Tesie A. Willoughby Samuel  C. Maxwell

Flight Chief M/Sgt. Albert H. Moraw accompanied the aircraft on its trip from the United States to England.

With 175 sorties to its credit, Stinky holds the squadron record for number of sorties. It was part of both the group's first bombing mission on August 15, 1943, against the St. Omer-Ft. Rouge airdrome, and its last on April 26, 1945, against oil storage tanks at Schrobenhausen, Germany. In the latter mission the Group was recalled three minutes from base because the target had been overrun by the fast-advancing U.S. ground forces; the Group did not get credited for the mission because it never entered hostile air space. Stinky survived its combat duty only to be sent to Landsberg, Germany to be blown into scrap.