Produktionsblock:
B-17G-25-BO: 42-31632 bis 42-31731
Hersteller:
Boeing
- Bomber-Gruppe:
- 301st Bomb Group
- Bomber-Staffel:
- 32nd Bomb Squadron
MACR: 2593
Geschichte der
B-17 42-31664
Delivered Denver 2/12/43; Felts Fd 4/12/43; Gt Falls 5/12/43; Denver 17/12/43; Savannah 22/12/43; Assigned 32BS/301BG Lucera 5/2/44; Missing in Action {5m} Regensburg 25/2/44 with Dave Paxton, Co-pilot: Chapas, Bombardier: Mullen (3 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Baughman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe, Radio Operator: Greenwood, Ball turret gunner: Frost, Waist gunner: Alexander, wgt-Tate,Tail gunner: O’Connor (7 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Bodenkirchen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2593.
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 4. April 2018
27. Januar 2025 access_time 8:23
I had Mr. Paxton as a drafting teacher in middle school back in the mid 1970s. One day he told me the story of him maintaining the the aircraft as it was greatly damaged so that the crew could bail out. When he left the controls he had found that the co pilot had opened his chute inside the plane by accident. The co pilot had taken paxtons chute and was already out of the plane. Paxton had no choice but to strap on the opened chute and jump with the fabric in his hands. He said he had no idea how it would turn out. Lucky for him he survived. Ironically he captured and was placed in the same pow camp as the co-pilot. He told me what he said to the co-pilot and then he said he never spoke to him again. Mr. Paxton was a great teacher and a humble man.