B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-39987 / Pin Ball

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-39987 / Pin Ball
General
Manufacturer: Lockheed/Vega
Production-Block: , B-17G-10-VE: 42-39958 to 42-40057
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 351st Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 511th Bomb Squadron
RCL DS-D
MACR 5328
Fate: , Lost by enemy aircraft
(28 May 1944)
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History of
B-17 42-39987 / Pin Ball

Delivered Long Beach 27/10/43; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-D] Polebrook 30/1/44; {29m} Missing in Action Dessau 28/5/44 with Bob Probasco, Co-pilot: Steve Llewellyn, Navigator: Bill Bragg, Bombardier: Bruno Branch, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Herman Ulreich, Waist gunner: Ed Frankowski (6 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Arlie Moore, Ball turret gunner: Norman Ringstmeyer, Waist gunner: Ray Seaman,Tail gunner: Jim Singleton (4 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KOd #2 and #3 along with oxygen, crashed three miles S of Alt-Leonnewitz Afd, near Falkenberg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5328. PIN BALL.

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This page was last updated on 12 April 2018

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