B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-31627

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-31627
General
Manufacturer: Boeing
Production-Block: , B-17G-20-BO: 42-31432 to 42-31631
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 457th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 748th Bomb Squadron
MACR: 3198
Fate: , Mid-air collision
(06 March 1944)
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History of
B-17 42-31627

Delivered Cheyenne 27/11/43; Gt Falls 1/12/43; Cheyenne 3/12/43; Wendover 11/12/43; Assigned 748BS/457BG Glatton 26/1/44; Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/44 with Roy Graves, Co-pilot: Wayne McLeod, Navigator: Jim Salay, Bombardier: Herbert Witte, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Horace Gillespie, Radio Operator: Weldon Brown, Ball turret gunner: Harry Moberg, Waist gunner: Don Lillehaug, Waist gunner: Bob Kent (9 Killed in Action);Tail gunner: Eldon Williams (Prisoner of War); mid air coll with 42-31595 wreckage, crashed near Treuenbrietzen, SW of Berlin, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3198.

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