Source:
www.fold3.com
| General | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer: | Boeing |
| Production-Block: | , B-17G-25-BO: 42-31632 to 42-31731 |
| Operational History | |
|---|---|
| Bomb Group: | , 351st Bomb Group |
| Bomb Squadron: | , 510th Bomb Squadron |
| RCL: | TU-S |
| MACR: | 5334 |
| Fate: |
, Lost by enemy aircraft (28 May 1944) |
History of
B-17 42-31721 / Black Magic
Delivered Denver 10/12/43; Kearney 24/12/43; Assigned 510BS/351BG [TU-S] Polebrook 29/1/44; {36m} Missing in Action Dessau 28/5/44 with Clyde McClelland, Co-pilot: Dick Francis, Navigator: John Duncan, Bombardier: George Kiely, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Louis Poole, Radio Operator: Leon Kriesky, Ball turret gunner: Nathan Williams, Waist gunner: Junior Edwards (8 Prisoner of War);Tail gunner: Leroy Cruse (KIA- when in chute shot by civilian); enemy aircraft KOd #1 and #2 on return, then lost a third, crashed Mernes, five miles E of Bad Orb, 25 miles SW of Fulda, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5334. BLACK MAGIC.
Information may include corrections and additions based on Jing’s research.
This page was last updated on 12 April 2018
05. June 2019 access_time 18:57
There are still a Lot of parts at the Crash place…just twenty minutes from my hohe..
09. January 2023 access_time 22:35
Hello, I am doing a biography on Richard Francis, co-pilot. Could you be so kind to send some pictures of the crash site for his daughter. Richard survived. Thank you!!!!
01. August 2025 access_time 11:38
Hello. If you still interrested about the Crashsite. I was Part of an archeogical Research there.
greetings from Germany