Production-block:
Boeing B-17E: 41-9011 to 41-9245
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 11th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 42nd Bomb Squadron
MACR: 15093
History of
B-17 41-9151
Delivered Geiger 301BG 25/4/42; Lowry 31/5/42; Assigned 42BS/11BG Hickam, Hawaii 7/6/42; transferred 13AF Poppy Henderson Fd 22/7/42; shot down over Choiseul Bay, Bougainville 1/2/43 with Maj Earl O. Hall (Sqd CO), Co-pilot: Joaquin Castro, Navigator: Frank Stern, Bombardier: Jim Bales, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Adler, Radio Operator: Jim Stephens, Francis Banasiak, Jesse Olmstead, Martin Grady. Missing Air Crew Report 15093.
Last updated: 16. June 2017
28. January 2025 access_time 14:17
I have a B&W phote post card size of this aircraft. Taken in Hawaii possibly or is SoPac. Palm trees evident. Paint on the airframe not yet faded looking. Two men in foreground doing something with a bucket.