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Source:
www.303rdbg.com
Production-block:
B-17F-27-BO: 41-24585 to 41-24639
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 303rd Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 427th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: GN-S
MACR: 1923
Missions: 52
History of
B-17 41-24619 / S-for-Sugar
Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-S] Bangor 5-Oct-42; Molesworth 25-Oct-42; 52m Missing in Action Oschersleben 11-Jan- 44 with Tom Simmons, Co-pilot: Fred Reichel, Navigator: Bill Clyatt, Bombardier: Dick Vaughan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Wallace Elliott, Radio Operator: Joe Bennett, Ball turret gunner: Dante Dipietra, Waist gunner: Bob Livingstondied Stalag 17B, Krems 27/3/44, Waist gunner: Bob Stewart,Tail gunner: Wesley Hasty (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft severely damaged ship, crew bailed, but it flew on and crashed in woods at Oberhaus, between Bad Lauterberg & Braunlage, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1923. S FOR SUGAR.
Last updated: 29. December 2019
B-17 41-24619 / S-for-Sugar Details
2Lt. Robert W. Sheets’ crew
29. December 2019 access_time 6:01
This is neat seeing this page here. I knew Dante DiPietra through his son (who shares the same name) and have had a few conversations with him in the past. He was a very nice man. Dan passed away in September 2013.
May I ask if this was Dante’s crew in the bottom photo?
Back a number of years ago, he spoke to students at Rome Free Academy in Rome NY (where he once lived) about his experience as a Ball Turret Gunner and his experience when S For Sugar was shot down and his experience as a POW in Stalag XVII. I Have provided a YouTube link of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ST0aJrW4g
Thank you for the B17 crews and all who served in WW2. Without them, this would be a very repressed world.
29. December 2019 access_time 22:17
Thank you for sharing. The photo shows Robert W. Sheets’ crew. I added this to the photo.