B-17 Flying Fortress - Photo of B-17 42-30139
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Delivered to Cheyenne 15/4/43; Smoky Hill 25/4/43; Sioux City 30/4/43; Kearney 6/5/43; Tinker 22/5/43; Kearney 26/5/43; Dow Fd 29/5/43; Assigned 545Bomb Squadron/384Bomb Group [JD-O] Station 106, Grafton Underwood on 14 June 1943; Missing in Action on a mission to Schweinfurt 17 August 1943 with Oliver Sweningsen, Co-pilot: Carlos P. Stewart, Navigator: Robert M. Koening, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Wallace B. Dawson, Radio Operator: Joseph S. Barta, Ball turret gunner: Leon Svirsky, Waist gunner: Alfred Meyer,Tail gunner: Charles F. Tate Jr. (8 Prisoner of War), Bombardier: Victor T. Kelly, Waist gunner: Richard S. Grover (2 Killed in Action); flak & enemy aircraft, crashed at Stangenroth, six miles Northwest of Bad Kissingen, Germany; Missing Air Crew Report 294. SNUFFY.