Produktionsblock:
B-17G-35-VE: 42-97836 bis 42-97935
Hersteller:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomber-Gruppe:
- 100th Bomb Group
- Bomber-Staffel:
- 418th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: LD-T
MACR: 6542
Geschichte der
B-17 42-97859 / Any Gum Chum
Delivered Tulsa 17/3/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 26/5/44; Assigned 418BS/100BG Thorpe Abbotts 27/5/44; Missing in Action on supply drop on Operation Zebra 25/6/44 with Ken Houghton, Co-pilot: Thornton Bline, Radio Operator: Laverne Deatrich, Waist gunner: Malcolm Eckley (4 evaded capture); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Marion (KIA- chute failed); Navigator: Stan Green, Bombardier: Bill Lichtenstern, Ball turret gunner: John Nelson{390BG},Tail gunner: Warren Moore (4 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed SE of La Ferte-Vidame, NW of Chartres, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 6542. ANY GUM CHUM?
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 6. Januar 2018
03. Oktober 2020 access_time 14:57
Quatre Américains évadés ont séjourné au maquis de St Cyr la Rosiere pendant un mois après la chute de l’appareil, j’ai des photos.
M. jean jacques Badaut, un ami,neveu d’un rescapè du maquis souhaite retrouver des descendants des evades du crash