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Source:
www.fold3.com
Production-block:
B-17G-5-VE: 42-39858 to 42-39957
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomb Group:
- 381st Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 535th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: MS-Y
MACR: 5179
Missions: 17
History of
B-17 42-39890 / Return Ticket
Delivered Long Beach 30/9/43; Gr Island 3/11/43; ass 535BS/381BG [MS-Y] Ridgewell 22/12/43; {17m} MIA Berlin 24/5/44 Pilot: Carl Dasso, Co-Pilot: Bill Watson, Bombardier: Norman Isom, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Oscar Wright, Radio Operator: Anthony Madero (5KIA); Navigator: Phil Barkett, Ball Turret Gunner: Paul Williams, Waist Gunner: Marshall Rose, Tail Gunner: Chester Herron (4POW); Enemy aircraft shot off left wing and #1, crashed Wilhelmshof Estate, near Gratze, 19 miles NE of Berlin, Germany. MACR 5179. RETURN TICKET.
Last updated: 18. November 2018
02. October 2019 access_time 9:08
42-39890 was named Return Ticket . Shot down over Berlin . Marshall Rose was waist gunner, POW and my Dad
27. August 2020 access_time 16:40
Dear Mr. Rose,
Your father Marshall and my father Robert C. Thickpenny (“Bob”) were great friends and went through technical training together in 1943 at Laguardia’s school of aeronautics, Casey Jones school in Newark, and Roosevelt Field Long island. My father was from San Francisco and Marshal took him to DC and many weekends to cousin Marion’s and her husband Reginald’s beautiful home in Great Neck. Many pictures were taken which my father passed on to one of my siblings. Both of our fathers are heroes of America’s Greatest Generation. Feel free to contact me by email. There’s much we can share with each other.
Very truly yours,
Mark C. Thickpenny
13. February 2024 access_time 4:54
Mr. Rose, did your father ever mention the bottom gunner Paul Williams? He was also POW. I am his grandson and would be grateful hearing any history you have. Thank you.
11. January 2023 access_time 3:51
My father was the co-pilot of Return Ticket and Emil Urban was the pilot. They completed their 30 missions on April 26, 1944. The plane was lost with the next crew. The picture shows my father, George D Hooker, second from the left on the front row. Capt Urban Is first on left. Dad retired as a Lt. Colonel in the Air Force.
17. June 2023 access_time 19:00
Do you know if there was any art on the aircraft other than the name “Return Ticket”?
thank uncle Demp
26. July 2024 access_time 14:40
My dad is back row top left his name is Steve Gasper
17. October 2024 access_time 4:54
I’m a bit confused. My uncle, whom I was named after, was the radio operator/top gunner on B-17 “Return Ticket” from March 1944 through D-Day. Then he when on a shuttle mission to Russia. The pilot was Lt John Evans. The info here describes a different crew. Was the bomber transferred to another crew and then lost? Was it the same aircraft?