Produktionsblock:
B-17G-15-VE: 42-97436 bis 42-97535
Hersteller:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomber-Gruppe:
- 2nd Bomb Group
- 99th Bomb Group
- Bomber-Staffel:
- 416th Bomb Squadron
- 96th Bomb Squadron
Geschichte der
B-17 42-97438
Delivered Denver 16/11/43; Kearney 27/11/43; Assigned 416BS/99BG Tortorella 1/44; {29m} transferred 96BS/2BG Amendola 28/3/44; while over Vienna 1/11/44 ship was damaged with Bill Donnell, Co-pilot: Tom Vaughan, Waist gunner: Jim Holbrook, Waist gunner: Jim Pewitt,Tail gunner: Francis Miaers (5 Returned to Duty); Navigator: Roy Compton, Bombardier: Chas Melvin, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jack Gruner, Radio Operator: Stan Pociask(4 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: John Meringola (Killed in Action); ship limped back to land at Bari, Italy; {66m} Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 6/6/45; 4104 BU Rome 28/6/45; 4124 BU Altus 16/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 25. August 2017
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