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42-97622 Crash Paper Dollie |
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B-17G Paper Dollie #42-97622 (358BS) VK-K
24 May 1944 Crash landing at Molesworth. Later, on 23 July 1944 on Mission #210 to Creil, France Paper Dollie was lost when she ran out of fuel. Pilot F/O Cecil M. Miller was unable to find an emergency landing field. He ordered the crew to bail-out while crossing the English Coast. Most of the crewmen made successful parachute jumps. F/O Cooper sustained a broken ankle. F/O Miller was killed on landing when his parachute failed to open.