Production-block:
B-17G-1-VE: 42-39758 to 42-39857
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomb Group:
- 100th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 349th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: XR-A
MACR: 3029
History of
B-17 42-39817 / Murderer’s Row
Delivered Long Beach 9/9/43; Assigned 394BS/100BG [XR-A] Thorpe Abbotts 27/9/43; Missing in Action Wilhelmshafen 3/3/44 with Bob Vollmer, Navigator: Ed Sullivan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Humphrey, Ball turret gunner: Don Guthrie, Waist gunner: Tom Mullenix (5 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: John Adams, Bombardier: Ernie Clark, Radio Operator: Elias Johnson, Waist gunner: Don Becker,Tail gunner: George Wood (5 Killed in Action); mid-air coll with 42-31970 (100BG), crashed Drage, near Hohenaspe, six miles N of Iztehoe, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3029. MURDERER’S ROW.
Last updated: 22. December 2017
B-17 42-39817 / Murderer’s Row Details
Mid-air-collision with B-17 #42-31970 ‘Bertha the Blues’ on 3 March 1944.
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