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Produktionsblock:
B-17G-25-VE: 42-97636 bis 42-97735
Hersteller:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomber-Gruppe:
- 379th Bomb Group
- Bomber-Staffel:
- 526th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: LF-L
MACR: 12217
Einsätze: 127
Geschichte der
B-17 42-97678 / The Birmingham Jewell
Delivered: Denver 25/1/44; Kearney 15/3/44; Grenier 2/4/44; Assigned: 526BS/379BG [LF-J] Kimbolton 11/4/44; 525BS; MIA Chemnitz {127m} 3/2/45 Pilot: Bill Webber, Ray Weatherbee, Carl McHenry, Bill Wells (4KIA); Jim Kiester, Tom Pickett, Harry Francis, Bill Scarffe, Bennett Howell (5POW); flak, crashed Ilvenstadt, Germany. MACR 12217. THE BIRMINGHAM JEWEL.
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 27. Juni 2023
10. April 2020 access_time 23:55
Your photo: B-17, 42-97678/ Birmingham Jewell, top far rt. is my wife’s uncle: Cecil Loveless, Dover, AR. Survived 30 missions!
12. April 2020 access_time 14:51
Thank you for identification!
11. Mai 2020 access_time 15:50
Top row, 1 in from right, with chut on, is the pilot, my grandfather 2nd Lt. Michael Francis Medinger, picture was right after the successful completion of The Jewel’s 100th mission. Email me for any more info on this plan, I grew up with its history and met the woman for whom it was named.