Production-block:
B-17G-5-VE: 42-39858 to 42-39957
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomb Group:
- 91st Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 401st Bomb Squadron
- RCL: LL-B
MACR: 3223
History of
B-17 42-39892
Delivered Long Beach 1/10/43; Gr Island 29/11/43; ass 401BS/91BG [LL-B] Bassingbourn 13/12/43; MIA Berlin 8/3/44 Pilot: Claude Williams, Co-Pilot: John Armstrong, Navigator: Tom Brooks, Bombardier: Rich Matthews, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jim Miller, Radio Operator: Russ Schleyer (6POW); Ball Turret Gunner: Tom Roberts, Waist Gunner: Ray Winkler, Waist Gunner: Francis Rumble, Tail Gunner: Roy Morby (4KIA); Enemy aircraft, exploded and crashed Einwinkel, seven miles W of Osterburg, Germany. MACR 3223.
Last updated: 10. April 2018
16. February 2024 access_time 2:57
Cousin of my dad Carl Winkler..Kearney Nebraska..I have a photo of Raymond ,Carl,George and Eddie Winkler in Kearney…circa 1940,,,Carl served in 1944…18 yrs by then..Navy ..LSM. medic…South Pacific..etc…A letter Sister in law mailed to Raymond Winkler..around Feb 1944 323rd. sq…91st. bomb group was returned….stamped on the front….Reported Missing….the bad news came a short time later….I have the letter