Dakota Queen

Dakota Queen
Dakota Queen
Type B-24 Liberator
Manufacturer Consolidated Aircraft
Owners and operators United States Army Air Forces

Crew

  • Pilot: George McGovern
  • Co-pilot: Lt. Ralph Rounds
  • Navigator: Lt. Sam Adams
  • Engineer: Sgt. Mike Valko
  • Gunners: Sgt. Bill McAfee & Robert O’Connell
  • Waist gunner: Sgt. Bill Ashlock
  • Radio operator: Sgt. Ken Higgins
  • Tail gunner: Sgt. Isador Irving Seigal

The Dakota Queen was an aircraft based in Italy that conducted strategic bombing during World War II in the European Theater of Operations, particularly missions of the Oil Campaign. The bomber was piloted by George McGovern (later a US Senator and the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee) and named after his wife (both were from South Dakota).[1]:102

Notable missions include:

    • December 16, 1944: The lead 741st BS pilot bypassed the Brüx refinery due to flak: "I'm not sure to this day that he wasn't right in avoiding that almost suicidal bomb run" (George McGovern.)[1]:182
    • December 20, 1944[2]: a mission in which both engine numbers 2 and 3 were put out of operation by flak damage, and the aircraft landed at Vis Island in the Adriatic Sea.[1]:193
    • February 8, 1945:An attack on the Regensburg airfield destroyed 12 Me 262s on the ground.[1]:211

After World War II the Dakota Queen flew missions delivering food in Europe.[1]:254

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Ambrose, Stephen E. (2001) (html—Google books). The Wild Blue: The Men and boys who flew the B-24s over Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 102,182,193,211,254. ISBN 0-7432-0339-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=nJw-o7Rm988C&pg=PA180. 
    • NOTE: Ambrose cites a McGovern's book.
  2. ^ Benen, Steve. "DECORATED LIBERAL VETERANS....". The Washington Monthly. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_04/023162.php. Retrieved 2011-08-08. 

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