B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-30315 / Battle Queen aka Peg of My Heart

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B-17 42-30315 / Battle Queen aka Peg of My Heart

Delivered Cheyenne 13/5/43; Geiger 26/5/43; Gt Falls 7/6/43; Smoky Hill 1/7/43; Dow Fd 11/7/43; Assigned 569BS/390BG [CC-S] Framlingham 12/7/43; Missing in Action Regensbury 17/8/43 with Steve Rapport, Co-pilot: Elmer Holloway, Navigator: Grover Boyd, Bombardier: Chas Ryan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Scott, Radio Operator: Bill Carter, Ball turret gunner: Theo Obsharsky, Waist gunner: Blair Neal, Waist gunner: Joe Russell,Tail gunner: Ricardo Robledo (10INT – but both WGs and ettg later escaped and returned to base; flak, crashed Utzendorf, nine miles N of Berne, Switz; Missing Air Crew Report 391. BATTLE QUEEN aka ‘PEG OF MY HEART’.

Zuletzt aktualisiert: 1. Februar 2020

Andere Webseiten über die B-17 42-30315 / Battle Queen aka Peg of My Heart

1. http://warbird.ch/wb-events/erste-b-17-landungen-in-der-schweiz/
2. https://www.bluewin.ch/de/news/wissen-technik/vor-75-jahren-us-bomber-muss-im-bernischen-utzenstorf-notlanden-133800.html