B-17 #43-37882 / Happy-Go-Lucky
Delivered Cheyenne 1/6/44; Kearney 16/6/44; Grenier 30/6/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-U] Thorpe Abbotts 29/6/44; Missing in Action Berlin 6/10/44 with Fred Reed, Ed Hesse, John Carmichael (?), Edmund Rohde, Ed Ankli, Bob Bennett, Bob Jackson, Joe Burghardt (8 Killed in Action); Roy Lomanno (Prisoner of War); flak KO’d #1 & #2, the wing caught fire and spun down near Spandau, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 9509. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY






