B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies
B-17 41-24507 / Yankee Raider

Production-block:
B-17F-20-BO: 41-24504 to 41-24539

Manufacturer:
Boeing

• 306th Bomb Group
• 384th Bomb Group
• 368th Bomb Squadron
• 545th Bomb Squadron
• 546th Bomb Squadron
• RCL: BO-G, BK-B, JD-B

• Lost by enemy aircraft
• 06 September 1943

MACR: 772

Assigned to the 368BS/306BG [BO-G] Westover 25/8/42; Thurleigh 17/9/42; transferred SBA trainer 11/4/43; transferred to the 546th BS, squadron code BK-B, 384th BG, Station 106, Grafton Underwood 23/8/43; transferred to the 545th BS, squadron code JD-B; Missing in Action Stuttgart 6/9/43 with James Edwin Armstrong, Radio Operator: Walter L. House, Waist gunner: Clifford Hammock (3 evaded capture), Co-pilot: Robert L. Stoner, Navigator: Charles C. Carlin, Bombardier: Wilbert Y K Yee, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bruno E. Edman, Waist gunner: Olen Grant,Tail gunner: Eldore T. Daudelin, (6 Prisoner of War), Ball turret gunner: James H. Redwing (Killed in Action); shot down by enemy aircraft, crashed near old Etrepagny airfield, 11 miles NW of Gisors, France. Missing Air Crew Report 772. YANKEE RAIDER.

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