Produktionsblock:
B-17F-20-VE: 42-5765 bis 42-5804
Hersteller:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomber-Gruppe:
- 95th Bomb Group
- Bomber-Staffel:
- 334th Bomb Squadron
- 412th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: BG-E, QW-S
Geschichte der
B-17 42-5791 / Ruthless
Delivered Long Beach 31/1/43; Salina 14/2/43; Kearney 12/3/43; Brookley 27/3/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-E] Horham 19/4/43; 412BS [QW-S]; 5m, transferred AFSC 6/43; on personnel ferry to Southport 29/12/43 with Alden Witt, Co-pilot: Bill Gaffney, Navigator: Howard Leddy, Bombardier: Alan Grant, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Kingsley Spitzer, Ball turret gunner: Wendell Verbulecz, plus passengers: Capts Louis Reno, Louis Green, Arvid Dahl, Lt Bob Moon, NCOs Roy Baughman, Ray Loija, Jim Leithhead, Dewey Cox, Harry Shade, Linus Thomas, Gene Downey and Andrew Mullavey (18 Killed in Service). In heavy overcast crashed Buckley, Flintshire, N.Wales. Salvaged. RUTHLESS.
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 17. August 2017
06. April 2023 access_time 17:52
I am a member of a local history group in Denbighshire,North Wales.The site of the
crash was actually Cwm Mountain in Dyserth,North Wales,15 miles west of Buckley.We have recently pin pointed the site having spoken to a local farmer who was a boy at the time.