Dead Duck shoot....
Image used with permission IWMAnother gun camera clip I was viewing last week leapt out at me as soon as the title card opened - the target was recorded as a "Liberator A.C." and the pilot/squadron details were recorded as being F/O Emmerson 453 Sqn on 26/2/45 at 1600hrs - this might be interesting!!
A second clip, F/Lt Clemesha 453 Sqn, also featured this attack - slightly better quality than the first clip and I managed to capture a frame of the action to try and see if I could enhance the image over that seen on the Steenbeck.
Later, after converting the negative image to a positive, I could make out it was a white underlined G on a dark coloured bar. Some searching on the net resulted in the following results...
392nd BG
Serial No. - 42-95241
Sqn - (H) 578th
Call Letter - EC - G
A/C Name - "Jolly Duck"
Final Disposition - Crash landed Feb 22, 45 at
Missions Flown - 37
More info -
B-24 Jolly Duck Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1140877619381976
The John McCormick Story - https://www.b24.net/storiesMcCormick.htm
Pics of her can be found on row four on this page - https://www.b24.net/aircraftPhotos.htm
Pics of her can be found on row four on this page - https://www.b24.net/aircraftPhotos.htm
Hello warbirdskies,
ReplyDeletei am very surprised of your picture of the jolly duck.
I am one of the investigators of this airplane and in also live in Zoetermeer were the Jolly Duck crash landed (not NOEKermeer)
I also deliverd many information and pictures to B24.net and i assisted Annet Tison writing the John McCormick story on B24.net .
We never knew that there were more pictures of the jolly duck!! so we are very happy with this picture!
We also didnt know the names of the pilotes of the Spitfires.
Can you please help us with some more pictures or information about the pilotes? Any information will be a great help for us!
One last question, is the picture from a film or is it a photograph?
Kind regards,
Maarten Havinga
Zoetermeer, Holland
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ReplyDelete11 years after finding this clip, while accessioning another batch of gun camera film, I have found another sortie to destroy the remains of the "Jolly Duck" - this time P/O Inglis of 453 Sqn on the 26/2/45 at 1630hrs.
ReplyDeleteHello Bob! I was surfing older information about my research, i just saw this post... can you please contact me again? Still the same email adress, oude-huis@hotmail.com thank you very much!
DeleteSincerly,
Maarten