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Produktionsblock:
B-17F-75-DL: 42-3504 bis 42-3563
B-17G-5-DL: 42-3504 bis 42-3563
Hersteller:
Douglas
- Bomber-Gruppe:
- 381st Bomb Group
- Bomber-Staffel:
- 535th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: MS-N
MACR: 1660
Geschichte der
B-17 42-3540 / Bacta-th‘-Sac aka Lucifer Jr II
Delivered Denver 26/7/43; Dyersbury 15/8/43; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-N] Ridgewell 20/9/43 LUCIFER JR III; Missing in Action Leverkusen 1 December 1943 with Pilot Warren C. Hess; Navigator: David Randle; Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Albert J. Gardella; Radio Operator: John F. Regan; Ball turret gunner: William M. Macklin; Left Waist gunner: Allan G. Ludwig; Right Waist gunner: Philip Burke (7 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Charles L. Smith Jr (evaded, captured, freed by British troops in Belgium); Bombardier: Robert Wernersbach (evaded capture, back in England 24 May);Tail gunner: Edgar G. Delp (KIA-died 12/12/43 of wounds, in hospital). Flak and/or fighters; crashed near Ampsin, 3km NW of Huy, Belgium. Missing Air Crew Report – MACR 1660. BACTA-TH‘-SAC.
29. November 2019 access_time 21:56
Co-Pilot Charles Lloyd Smith Jr. was my Dad. He was hidden in several resistance people’s homes. Last one was that of my Great Grandmother — Dad met my Mother there. They were all arrested by the Gestapo, but survived the war. My folks were married in 1946 in Brussels.
30. November 2019 access_time 10:50
Hello Michael,
very interesting story of your family and of the co-pilot Charles Lloyd Smith Jr. Thank you for sharing!