B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies
B-17 42-5901 / Superstituous Aloysius

Produktionsblock:
B-17F-30-VE: 42-5855 bis 42-5904

Hersteller:
Lockheed/Vega

• 94th Bomb Group
• 410th Bomb Squadron
• RCL: GL-T

• Abschuss durch Feindflugzeug
• 14/10/1943

MACR: 789

Delivered Long Beach 28/4/43; Denver 2/5/43; Tinker 13/5/43; Dow Fd 21/5/43; Assigned 410BS/94BG [GL-T] Earls Colne 25/5/43; Rougham 13/6/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Ed Reed, Co-pilot: Sid Bledsoe, Navigator: John Oerther, Bombardier: Burnie Hayes, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Virgil Epperson, Radio Operator: Earl Morris, Ball turret gunner: Howard McGavack, Waist gunner: Bob Elliott,Tail gunner: Joe O’Brien (9 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Jim Flener (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft set wing on fire, crashed near Landa, between Wurzburg & Mannheim, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 789. SUPERSTITUOUS ALOYSIUS.

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