Production-block:
B-17F-35-BO: 42-5079 to 42-5149
Manufacturer:
Boeing
History of
B-17 42-5123
Delivered Geiger 28/9/42; Great Falls 1/12/42; Assigned 20BS/2BG when on training mission crash landed Musselshell, Mt 30/12/42 with Ed Layfield, Co-pilot: Gerald Beem, Navigator: Lewis Newland, Bombardier: Chester Knight, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fred Brown, Radio Operator: Hulon Dutton, Ball turret gunner: Chas Valys, Waist gunner: Wallace Hanson, Waist gunner: Fred Murray,Tail gunner: Hobart Hall, pass-Jake Reiss, obs-Major Orville Ralston; aircraft caught fire over Melstone, MT, crashed Bull Mountains, south of Mussellshell, MT; (11 Killed in Service); Written off 1/1/43.
Last updated: 19. October 2018
28. November 2019 access_time 1:31
Fred Murray was my mother’s brother and the Uncle that I never knew.
18. October 2020 access_time 4:27
Hulon B.Dutton was my dad’s brother and the uncle I that never knew.
18. April 2021 access_time 4:30
Hobart “Louie” Hall was my grandfather’s brother. My father never met him.