B-17 Flying Fortress - Foto der B-17 41-24531-1280px-B-17Fs_26BS_11BG_1942

Delivered Cheyenne 2/8/42; Sacramento 1/9/42; Assigned 26BS/11BG New Hebrides 12/9/42; Missing in Action Tonolei, Bougainville, shot down and ditched Vella LaVella, Baga Is 18/12/42 with Maj Alan Sewart (CO 26BS), Co-pilot: Jack Lee(2 Killed in Action); Navigator: Nelson Levi, Obs-Col Saunders (CO 11BG took over as pilot – 2WIA); rest RTD, USAAF contacted by coastwatcher Jack Keenan, crew picked up by US Catalina, Methodist nurse Merle McFarland treated wounded. Missing Air Crew Report 16407. (movement card reads: retUS 14/7/43; Homestead 14/6/45.

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