Contributor - James A. Leddy

Caption Reads: "It Couldn't Be Done" -- So they said but Major Allen Russell, operations chief of the Ferry and Transport Service with U.S.A.A.S.C., confounded experts when he flew the crash-landed Liberator "PREGNANT PEG" out of a ploughed field sticky with mud. His crew chief, T/Sgt Cecil F. Grove of Waverly, MO., sat beside him as he took the plane off a dangerously-short improvised runway.

Info Contributor - Tom Brittan

Transferred to 578th BS (RCL Q) and lost 3 Mar 44.

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