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B-17G Sweet Rose O'Grady #42-39885 (427BS) GN-R
28 September 1944 - Mission #248 to Madeburg, Germany: The B-17 received 540 holes. The ball-turret glass was fractured. S/Sgt Arthur Coyle (BTG) had glass in his eye and was hospitalized. The pilots were 2Lt Frederick Gano and 2Lt Wesley J. Flanders.

[photo from the 303rdBGA Archives]