The 599th Bombardment Squadron flew 239 combat missions from April 1944. It was based at Peronne, France for most of 1945. The 397th Bombardment Group's tail marking was a yellow diagonal stripe - see colour photo 583483. Photo from: Vejle Stadsarkiv

9/44: TOS USAAF; ferried to Casablanca. 10/44: TOS Free French Air Force; assigned to Bombardment Group 1/32, 34th Escadrille. 11/44 to 4/45: Flew 37 combat missions. 5/45 to 10/45: Used for training missions. 3/46: Storage at Mont de Marsan, France. 1951: Air France Airline Training School, Vilgenis, France as a training airframe. 1964: Air Force Museum traded a C-47 for it. 6/65: Flown in a C-124 from Chateauraoux Air Base to Patterson Field, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. 10/70: Towed to new Museum at Wright Field. By 1982: Restoration had begun; marked as a B-26B of the 556th Bomb Squadron, ETO

9/44: TOS USAAF; ferried to Casablanca. 10/44: TOS Free French Air Force; assigned to Bombardment Group 1/32, 34th Escadrille. 11/44 to 4/45: Flew 37 combat missions. 5/45 to 10/45: Used for training missions. 3/46: Storage at Mont de Marsan, France. 1951: Air France Airline Training School, Vilgenis, France as a training airframe. 1964: Air Force Museum traded a C-47 for it. 6/65: Flown in a C-124 from Chateauraoux Air Base to Patterson Field, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. 10/70: Towed to new Museum at Wright Field. By 1982: Restoration had begun: marked as a B-26B of the 556th Bomb Squadron, ETO

Preserved in Musée du Débarquement / Sainte-Marie-du-Mont. Fake serial, is actually ex USAAF 44-68219.

Taken by my father Algy Spurr in WW2. 443rd Bomber Squadron USAF, 'The King of Diamonds' flown by Dave Lobeck.

Slide taken in the outdoor aircraft display area at the old museum on Patterson AFB. At this time the a/c still wore its correct serial number. It was acquired by the USAFM in 1965 from Air France, where it was used in their training school near Paris. This is a combat veteran, having seen action with the Free French Air Force during the last months of WW 2.

In fact this is B-26G 44-68219. It was delivered to the Armée de l'Air in 1945 and used until 1951. It than was used as a ground instruction aircraft with Air France up to 1965 and subsequently stored with the Armee de l'Air up to 1990 when restoration commenced. It was taken up in the Musée de l'Air collection until moved to its current location in Normandy in 2011.

This Marauder spent many years in the Musée de l'Air at Le Bourget before being relocated to Normandy and painted to represent an aircraft of the 386th BG, based at Great Dunmow. Its true USAAF serial was 44-68219.

Seen in the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace. Ex USAAF 44-68219.

This Marauder is in reality 43-34581 and was flown in combat by the Free French during the final months of WWII. It is now on display at the National Museum of the USAF as 'Shootin in', a Ninth AF B-26B assigned to the 387th Bomb Group in 1945.

The Musée de l'Air's rare and beautiful B-26 Marauder. USAAF serial was 44-68219.