B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-31219

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-31219
General
Manufacturer: Boeing
Production-Block: , B-17G-5-BO: 42-31132 to 42-31231
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 447th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 710th Bomb Squadron
Fate: , Lost by mechanical fault
(22 November 1943)
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History of
B-17 42-31219

Delivered Denver 4/10/43; Harvard 14/10/43; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 22/11/43, crashed on take off from Goose Bay, Labrador, at Lake Melville en route UK, with Capt Lester White,cp-Frank Haag, Navigator: Tom Cannon, Bombardier: Gilligen Moseley, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Martin Slattery, Radio Operator: Alfd Haag, Ball turret gunner: George Oakley, Waist gunner: Ray Hodges, Waist gunner: Lorenz Kirchoff{body never recovered},Tail gunner: Gus Farmer (10 Killed in Service).

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