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I have done a similar thing in the past, but to flash firmware onto any device with a certain USB descriptor that gets plugged in. It was a mess of USB hubs and cables, but it worked.
What I did was write a udev rule that checks for the vendor and product id of a newly plugged in device and calls a script when there's a match. The script then performs the flashing and logs the output.
In your case:
dd
the source USB to a file (make sure the partition you're dding is smalled than any target driveEdit. Did this on a rpi3