Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications
USAAF B-24D "The Sandman" 98th BG 9th AAF

File Description:
B-24D-55-CO #42-40402 was assigned to the 345th Bomb Squadron, 98th Bomb Group, 9th AAF. This aircraft was assigned to 1Lt Bob Sternfels and a photo of this ship clearing the Ploesti refineries was often published following the 1 Aug 1943 mission. The nose art depicts Donald Duck carrying a large "sand bad" which is spilling bombs from it. The mission markers were miniatures of the larger art. "The Sandman was lost Sunday 19 Dec 1943 on a mission to theMesserschmitt Plant Augsburg, Germany. Its wreckage was later found in the 1980s in the Italian Dolomite mountains.