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Aircraft History Built by Consolidated Aircraft Corporation at San Diego during 1941. Constructors Number 25. Delivered to the U.S. Army. Assigned to Ferrying Command based at Bolling Field. Prewar, painted in neutrality markings with a large US flag on the side of the nose. No known nose art or nickname. Wartime History One of two aircraft used for the "Harriman Mission" of American and British representatives to visit Moscow. Averell Harriman (Chairman, Union Pacific Railroad) was appointed by U.S. President Roosevelt to lead the group, that included press officer Quentin Reynolds. This B-24 departed the United States flying via the United Kingdom. Lord Beaverbrook appointed by Winston Churchill joined the flight that arrived Moscow on September 28, 1941. During the evening of March 3, 1942 landed at Broome Airfield to deliver medical supplies and and doctors to treat the wounded from the Japanese air raid earlier in the day. Loaded with evacuees, this bomber took off fully loaded with evacuees, but ran off the runway damaging the landing gear but without harm to anyone aboard. Although it could have been repaired, orders were issued to destroy the bomber, fearing an eminent Japanese landing. References Everyday A Nightmare (2010) page 330 The Greatest Battle, page 159 Oz@War - 3 March 1942 Japanese air raid on Broome Contribute
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