41-11596 Brooklyn Rambler
Brooklyn Rambler, serial number 41-11596, was one of the 23 HALPRO B-24s. She carried RCL #2. It participated in HALPRO's first mission, the June 12, 1942 raid on the Ploesti oilfields. The pilot of the crew was Nathan Brown, Jr. Running low on fuel, her crew landed in Turkey, where they were interred until May 1943.
Brooklyn Rambler was "hijacked" by some of the interred crew members and flown to Crete.
Sometime during its return to Turkey, the nose gear collapsed and the plane nosed into the runway.
Click here to read Wilbur West's account of the "hijack."
The website 376bg.org is NOT our site nor is it our endowment fund.
At the 2017 reunion, the board approved the donation of our archives to the Briscoe Center for American History, located on the University of Texas - Austin campus.
Also, the board approved a $5,000 donation to add to Ed Clendenin's $20,000 donation in the memory of his father. Together, these funds begin an endowment for the preservation of the 376 archives.
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Reunion
NOTE change in month !!!
DATES: Sep 18-21, 2025
CITY:Rapid City, SD
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