Production-block:
B-17F-60-BO: 42-29532 to 42-29631
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 303rd Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 358th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: VK-H
History of
B-17 42-29573 / Two Beauts
Delivered at Denver 6-Jan-43; Salina 12-Jan-43; Morrison 12-Feb-43; Homestead 15-Feb-43; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-H] Molesworth 6-Mar-43. 13-Mar-43 Sustained a mid-air collision with B-17F 41-24559 “Ooold Soljer”, 303BG/360BS in 10/10 cloud cover over Wellingboro, Northamptonshire, UK while despatched on a mission to bomb the shipyards at Rotterdam, Holland. Crashed at Mears Abby, UK. 7KIA 3BO/RTD.
Last updated: 28. August 2017
B-17 42-29573 / Two Beauts Details
Mid-air-collision with B-17 41-24559 ‘Ooold Soljer’ on March 31st 1943.
B-17 42-29573 / Two Beauts Crew
Position | Rank | Name | Status | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
P | 2LT | James R. Dunn | KIA | - |
CP | 2LT | Keith L. Hafen | KIA | - |
NAV | 2LT | George H. Boyd | KIA | - |
BOMB | 2LT | Robert A. Lizotte | KIA | - |
ENG/TT | T/SGT | Lamoine D. Yager | KIA | - |
RO | T/SGT | Earl Hogue | WIA | - |
BT | S/SGT | Carl E. Shellman | KIA | - |
WG | SGT | William A. Testoni | RTD | - |
WG | S/SGT | Stanislaus Nowak | WIA | - |
TG | S/SGT | Eugene C. Clowe | KIA | - |
17. November 2017 access_time 15:16
Looking for pictures of the crew of two beauts