B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-3148

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-3148
General
Manufacturer: Douglas
Production-Block: , B-17F-25-DL: 42-3074 to 42-3148
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 379th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 526th Bomb Squadron
RCL LF-A
MACR 1369
Fate: , Rammed by E/A
(11 June 1943)
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History of
B-17 42-3148

Delivered Denver 3/1/43; Assigned 527BS/379BG [FO-A] Patterson 17/4/43; then 526BS [LF-A] Kimbolton 30/5/43; Missing in Action Wilhelmshafen 11/6/43 with Bill Brinkman, Bombardier: Don Andrews, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clarry Watkins, Radio Operator: Bill Carver, Ball turret gunner: Alf Mitchell, Waist gunner: Ralph Smith, Waist gunner: Bob Todd,Tail gunner: Frank Murphy (8 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bill Cochran, Navigator: Bill Homes{Wounded in Action} (2 Prisoner of War); coll head on with enemy aircraft, crashed close to airfield at Marx, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1369.

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