Produktionsblock:
B-17F-50-DL: 42-3339 bis 42-3393
Hersteller:
Douglas
- Bomber-Gruppe:
- 94th Bomb Group
- Bomber-Staffel:
- 332nd Bomb Squadron
- RCL: XM-E
MACR: 1175
Geschichte der
B-17 42-3349 / El Mangau aka El Diablo aka Liberty aka El Lobo
Delivered Denver 22/5/43; Dow Fd 27/6/43; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-E] Rougham 7/43 EL MANGAU; re-named EL DIABLO then LIBERTY; Missing in Action Bordeaux 5/12/43 with John Perrine, Co-pilot: Rod Smith, Navigator: Bob Walthers, Bombardier: Bob Wright, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Albt Smith, Radio Operator: Frank Pogwist, Ball turret gunner: Clarry Neumann, Waist gunner: John Peacock, Waist gunner: Frank Scheinbaum,Tail gunner: Dallas Williamson (10 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft set #2 on fire, crashed Bordeaux, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 1175. EL LOBO.
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 24. März 2018
08. Juli 2023 access_time 20:04
MSgt. USAF (ret.) Nicholas Louis La Rocco, DFC, AMVVVV, of 535 Seybert Street, Hazleton, PA, born on May 26, 1918, age 105, now living in Naples, FL, was the radioman and rear gunner of this aircraft on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg raid.
It was my father’s 25th and final mission. It seems fitting that the likely oldest, although hopefully not only, living survivor of that raid is the crew member of a ship that was ultimately lost in combat.