USAAF 41-31901 Martin B-26B-30-MA Marauder

USAAF serial number S/N: 41-31901 Martin B-26B-30-MA Marauder

1941031901, 41-31901 Martin B-26B-30-MA Marauder Fate: Lost Unit: 323BG454BS Remarks: 323BG454BS White Tails - Wood's Rocket Raiders Code:RJ-A named: Punching Bag 323BG453BS White Tails Code:VT-A, Disposal: 17-Nov-44

Photo caption: A NINTH AIK FORCE BOMBER BASE. FRANCE—Two Texans of the “White Tailed” B-26 Marauder group, commanded by another Texan, Col. Wilson R Wood of Chico, Texas, are helping to deliver smashing aerial blows to the enemy as combat members of “The Punching Bag,” a veteran twin-engined B-36 medium bomber. Relaxing near the nose of the plane after returning from a mission against a railroad at Trier, Germany, they aie: Second Lieutenant James W. Bankston, Atlanta, Ga., co-pilot (left), and Sergeant James E. Bivin, 22, of Percilla, Texas, engineer-gunr.er, (center) and Second Lieutenant “Nick” Parrish, 23, pilot of Emhouse, Texas, (right). All three have earned the Air Medal for participating on more than five combat missions.