Produktionsblock:
B-17F-30-VE: 42-5855 bis 42-5904
Hersteller:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomber-Gruppe:
- 303rd Bomb Group
- 379th Bomb Group
- Bomber-Staffel:
- 360th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: PU-M
Geschichte der
B-17 42-5859
Delivered Long Beach 28/3/43; Memphis 9/4/43; Romulus 14/4/43; Assigned 379BG Kimbolton 24/4/43; crash landed 2 SAD Lt Staughton 1st mission; repaired & transferred 360BS/303BG [PU-M] Molesworth 2/10/43; severe battle damaged Bremen 29/11/43 with P. Brinkley, crew inc. 5 wia; two engines out, crash landed Bungay, Sfk, 30/11/43; battle damaged Berberg 20/2/44 with John Morrin, Co-pilot: Rich Sheehan, Navigator: Ed Gill, Bombardier: Homer Howard, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Berck, Radio Operator: Fred Cataldi, btgg-Don Houser, Waist gunner: Bob DiStasi, Waist gunner: Gene Kannapel,Tail gunner: Chas Dodge, foto-Bill Lovett (11 Returned to Duty); on return two engines out and another cut out on approach, crash landed Bozeat, Northamptonshire, UK, 20/2/44, Salvaged.
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 15. September 2017
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