Production-block:
B-17F-1-BO: 41-24340 to 41-24389
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 92nd Bomb Group
- 97th Bomb Group
- 99th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 342nd Bomb Squadron
Missions: 137
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History of
B-17 41-24378 / War Eagle
Assigned RAF [FA693] but transferred 92BG Bangor 24/6/42; 342BS/97BG Polebrook /8/42; Maison Blanche 13/11/42; Tafaraoui, Alg. 22/11/42; Biskra 25/12/42; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43 {125m}; transferred 99BG Tortorella 11/43 {12m}; Returned to the USA Morrison 18/5/44 {total 137m}; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd, 19/5/45. WAR EAGLE.
Last updated: 1. November 2017
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02. April 2018 access_time 0:40
MY FATHER LOUIS GONZALES WAS ON THE WAR EAGLE, HE WAS THE ENGINEER/TOP TURRET GUNNER. HE WAS WITH THE CREW OF THE WAR EAGLE WHEN IT COMPLETED ITS 100TH MISSION.
PILOT MELVIN W COLLINS
CO PILOT DANIEL RAIDER
BOMBARDIER PAUL T SPALLA
CHARLES DELLERT NAVIGATOR
LOUIS GONZALES ENGINEER/TOP TURRET GUNNER
ALVIE ALVIN ASHCRAFT/ WAIST GUNNER
JAMES NIMMO/TAIL GUNNER
PHILIP LANGLOIS/ BALL TURRET GUNNER
O H GRIFFITHS/RADIO
EVERETT L MOORE/ A/ENG/TOP TURRET GUNNER
09. February 2021 access_time 16:58
My father was on the first War Eagle. I have a list of all his missions 50 of them from England to North Africa. It includes a pics of his crew and others included when the plane crashed in North Africa. He also told some interesting stories as the waist gunner and radio operator. I was a radio operator in the Air Force during the Vietnam War.
19. July 2021 access_time 4:16
could you please send me copy of list. my dad told me that they received cover on their 48th,49th, and 50th mission from the tuskegee airmen