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Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker - 62-3551 / D - 351st ARS | 100th ARW | USAFE - USAF - RAF Mildenhall
"BLUE 33" arriving into RAF Mildenhall following a refuelling sortie for "TABOR 81" flight of the 494th FS "Panthers". The RAF Mildenhall based KC-135 alongside 3 other tankers dragged them back to RAF Lakenheath following a 3 month deployment in the Middle East as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.
62-3551 wears the nose art "Black Jack" and is specially coded EP-B to represent B-17F 42-30086/ EP-B of the 351st BS that was badly damaged by flak in Trondheim, Norway in 1942.
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Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker - 62-3551 / D - 351st ARS | 100th ARW | USAFE - USAF - RAF Mildenhall
"BLUE 33" arriving into RAF Mildenhall following a refuelling sortie for "TABOR 81" flight of the 494th FS "Panthers". The RAF Mildenhall based KC-135 alongside 3 other tankers dragged them back to RAF Lakenheath following a 3 month deployment in the Middle East as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.
62-3551 wears the nose art "Black Jack" and is specially coded EP-B to represent B-17F 42-30086/ EP-B of the 351st BS that was badly damaged by flak in Trondheim, Norway in 1942.
© Nicholas Thompson - All Rights Reserved