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Source:
www.301bg.com
Production-block:
B-17F-27-BO: 41-24585 to 41-24639
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 2nd Bomb Group
- 301st Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 352nd Bomb Squadron
- 49th Bomb Squadron
MACR: 2614
History of
B-17 41-24618 / Lil Jo
Delivered Tulsa 30/8/42; New Castle 4/10/42; Syracuse 6/10/42; Assigned 352BS/301BG Chelveston 11/42; Tafaraoui, Alg 26/11/42; {60m} transferred 49BS/2BG Massicault, Tun 14/11/43; Bizerte, Tun 2/12/43; Amendola, It. 9/12/43; Missing in Action Steyr, Aus. 24/2/44 with George Durney[wia], Co-pilot: Jim Wise, Navigator: Harry Larsen, Bombardier: Bernie Martin, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Claston Campbell, Radio Operator: Chas Daughdrill, Ball turret gunner: Bill Meiselbar, Waist gunner: Jesse Hart, Waist gunner: Elvyn Hollingsworth,Tail gunner: Ed McCarvel (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft ko’d #2 & 3 lost power, followed by flak hits, crashed Kranj. Missing Air Crew Report 2614. LIL JO.
Last updated: 13. August 2017
03. March 2024 access_time 21:58
My dad John A Thomson 2ndLt., Navigator flew Lil Joe October 1942 after their plane Phyllis 41-24397 was “shot down” three times on one mission to Maulte France October 2, 1942. Dad navigated Lil Joe from England to North Africa where he had eventually logged 50 completed combat missions. He left Lil Joe in July 1942 with orders to get home as fast as he could. We have Das log books describing such things as being lowered into the bombay to put a fuse cap back on the nose of a stuck 2000 lb bomb that was dislodged due to concussions from flak. Further stories like pushing their life rafts out over a downed b17 in the med, etc.