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Crash of #43-39220 "Smilie Jack"

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B-17G #43-39220 Smilie Jack aka Shillelagh
after crashing at Boernerowo (Okecie airfield) near Warsaw, Poland on March 15, 1945,
Lt Thomas W. Richardson, Pilot. The B-17 was on its seventh mission.
All crewmen were unhurt.

[photo courtesy of Mike Mucha, Poznan, Poland - Aircraft M.I.A. Project Archives]