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Source:
photos.384thbombgroup.com
Production-block:
B-17G-45-BO: 42-97173 to 42-97435
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 384th Bomb Group
- 96th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 545th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: JD-N
MACR: 7279
History of
B-17 42-97178 / Sweet Mama
Delivered Cheyenne 7/2/44; Gr Island 17/2/44; Grenier 13/3/44; Assigned 96BG Snetterton 15/3/44; transferred 545BS/384BG [JD-N] Grafton Underwood 16/3/44; Missing in Action Augsburg 19/7/44 with Gerald Heim, Co-pilot: Franklin Mueller, Navigator: Fred Pratt, Bombardier: Larry Warren, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Morris, Ball turret gunner: Buford Butcher,Tail gunner: Martin Seibert (7 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Bob Harbrecht, Waist gunner: Henry Bailey (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft set #1 on fire, aircraft exploded, crashed bank of Isar River near Wolfratshausen, SW of Munich, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7279. SWEET MAMA.
Last updated: 26. August 2018
25. October 2023 access_time 16:23
Just for accuracy, the location marker for crash site close to Ammersee is wrong. Wolfratshausen and Isar are right from Starnberger Lake.
25. October 2023 access_time 19:58
Thank you for the information.
I have mixed up the crash site of B-24, which crashed in the area, where the marker was. I have move the marker to “right bank of the Isar River, opposite of the mouth of Loisach River.” (Source MACR 7279; KU 2565)