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Source:
www.fold3.com
Production-block:
B-17F-15-DL: 42-3004 to 42-3038
Manufacturer:
Douglas
- Bomb Group:
- 303rd Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 359th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: BN-N
MACR: 1965
Missions: 35
History of
B-17 42-3029 / Wallaroo
Delivered Tulsa 13/1/43; Assigned 359BS/303BG [VK-N] Homestead 5/3/43; Molesworth 9/4/43; {35m} Missing in Action 14/1/44 with Capt Merle Hungerford, Co-pilot: Carl Arundale, Navigator: Joe Vogel, Bombardier: Jim Barlow, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Finch, Radio Operator: Dick Davis, Ball turret gunner: Bob Clink, Waist gunner: Angelo Petix, Waist gunner: Jim Elovich,Tail gunner: Joe Fertilla, foto-Art Nilson (11 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed near Le Meillard, 15 miles E of Abbeville, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 1965. WALLAROO.
Last updated: 19. October 2019
19. July 2023 access_time 15:06
The B-17 Wallaroo has a wooden carved plaque denoting it’s name, bomb group and MIA status, along with it’s nose art on RAF Molesworth. I am not sure why this one strikes a chord with me, out of all the other plaques like it, but it does.