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Source:
www.fold3.com
Production-block:
B-17G-20-VE: 42-97536 to 42-97635
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomb Group:
- 100th Bomb Group
- 95th Bomb Group
- 96th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 350th Bomb Squadron
- 413th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: MZ-F, LN-F
MACR: 7880
Missions: 7
History of
B-17 42-97555 / Island F for Fox aka Dan Boone
Delivered Denver 19/12/43; Langley 12/1/44; Mitchell 28/1/44; Assigned PFF 413BS/96BG [MZ-F] Snetterton 29/1/44; transferred 95BG Horham 30/1/44 as (H2X); 7m, transferred 350BS/100BG [LN-F] Thorpe Abbotts 31/1/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 28/7/44 with Jim Noble, Co-pilot: Bob Lipps, Navigator: Bob Barry, Xn-Edmund Kauffman, Bombardier: Marcus Hertz, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Frank Cruz, Radio Operator: Russ Ellis,Tail gunner: Fred Swartz, Capt Floyd Mason {mission pilot} (9 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Bill McNalley, Waist gunner: Art Roberts (2 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Offdilln, N of Dillenberg,, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 7880. ISLAND F FOR FOX.
Last updated: 11. March 2019
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