Produktionsblock:
B-17F-90-BO: 42-30132 bis 42-30231
Hersteller:
Boeing
- Bomber-Gruppe:
- 390th Bomb Group
- Bomber-Staffel:
- 571st Bomb Squadron
- RCL: FC-S
MACR: 1582 / KSU/ME/KU: 560
Geschichte der
B-17 42-30223 / Rick-O-Shay aka Norma J
Delivered Cheyenne 30/4/43;Gore 22/5/43; Spokane 24/5/43; Gore 11/6/43; Smoky Hill 29/6/43; Dow Fd 11/7/43; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-S] Framlingham 11/7/43 NORMA J; (18m) Missing in Action Emden 11/12/43 with Glenn Ryon, Co-pilot: Keith Pickel, Navigator: Don Schlofner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Wilson, Ball turret gunner: Don Voss, Waist gunner: Gerry Lawrence, Waist gunner: Bill Ferrill,Tail gunner: Allen Hoffman (8 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Newton Weiss, Radio Operator: Joe Hulme (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft shot away part of horizontal and vertical stabilizer, then ship exploded and crashed Westeraccum (stede), 12 miles N of Aurich, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1582. RICK-O-SHAY.
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 14. März 2021
B-17 42-30223 / Rick-O-Shay aka Norma J Details
B-17 42-30223 / Rick-O-Shay aka Norma J Crew
Position | Rang | Name | Status | Bemerkung |
---|---|---|---|---|
P | 2LT | Glenn E. Ryon | KIA | - |
CP | 2LT | Keith M. Pickel | KIA | - |
NAV | 2LT | Donald P. Schlofner | KIA | - |
BOMB | F/O | Newton Weiss | POW | - |
ENG/TT | S/SGT | Robert F. Wilson | KIA | - |
RO | S/SGT | Joe E. Hulme | POW | - |
BT | SGT | Donald F. Voss | KIA | - |
WG | SGT | Gerald K. Lawrence | KIA | - |
WG | SGT | William B. Ferrill | KIA | - |
TG | SGT | Allen C. Hoffman | KIA | - |
24. April 2021 access_time 19:51
Amazing history. My father, Fiorino Anthony Cinquanta, was a seventeen year old co-pilot flying B-17’s in 1945. On the Mission to Berlin, his plane Stardust, was hit by flak and left formation and landed behind enemy lines in Poland. He was reported MIA. The crew salvaged an engine from another plane and moved it with a donkey cart. They returned to Grafton-Underwood, UK, via Italy. He was in the 385th, Squadron 547. Stardust had a triangle P on the tail. Have you ever com across anything with regard to this?
31. August 2022 access_time 19:58
Hello Toni,
your father’s B-17 is this one:
https://b17flyingfortress.de/en/b17/44-6592-stardust/