B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-30712 / Miss Minookie

Delivered Denver 16/7/43; Gore 7/8/43; Geiger 9/8/43; Walla Walla 12/8/43; Redmond 15/8/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-O/R] Bassingbourn 27/9/43; Missing in Action 23m Achmer 21/2/44 with Neal Ward, Co-pilot: Jim McNulty, Navigator: Don Murray, Bombardier: Marion Walsh, Radio Operator: Tom Vinson,Tail gunner: Willard Chandler (6 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ken Jerge, Ball turret gunner: Rich Clarity, Waist gunner: Paul King, Waist gunner: Larry Silbergerdied 16/10/44 Meiningen Hospital (4 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed tw miles S of Luechtringen, due E of Hoxter, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2461. MISS MINOOKIE.