B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-102496 / Special Delivery

Delivered Cheyenne 9/3/44; Gr Island 2/4/44; Grenier 21/4/44; Assigned 359BS/303BG [BN-M] Molesworth 30/4/44; on night service training 18/9/44 with Graham Gould, Co-pilot: Yale Lasker, Navigator: Ralph Reynolds, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leon Megek, Radio Operator: Max Smelar, g-Peter Bandy (6 Returned to Duty); brakes were not applied soon enough, aircraft ran into ploughed field, nosed over then fell back, rep; on mission 24/8/44 with ? , Bombardier: John Rhyne KIA-by shrapnel), SPECIAL DELIVERY.