B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-3281 / The Mary R.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-3281 / The Mary R.
General
Manufacturer: Douglas
Production-Block: , B-17F-40-DL: 42-3229 to 42-3283
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 96th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 337th Bomb Squadron
MACR: 96
Fate: , Lost by enemy aircraft
(26 July 1943)
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History of
B-17 42-3281 / The Mary R.

Delivered Denver 23/4/43; Dow Fd 27/5/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW- ] Andrews Fd 30/5/43; Snetterton 12/6/43; Missing in Action Hannover 26/7/43 with Frank Spino, Co-pilot: Ira Middaugh, Navigator: Les Hawley, Bombardier: Tony Grasso, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Geese, Radio Operator: Armando Cieri, Ball turret gunner: Leon Donaldson, Waist gunner: George Strauss, Waist gunner: Orville Williams,Tail gunner: Fred Taylor (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d two engines, crashed Eindorf, near Walsrode, 30 miles E of Bremen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 96. THE MARY R.

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