42-102502 / Chatterbox! | B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-102502 / Chatterbox!

Production-block:
B-17G-50-BO: 42-102379 to 42-102543

Manufacturer:
Boeing

Bomb Squadron:
339th Bomb Squadron

RCL: QJ-G

Fate:

MACR: 8283

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History of
B-17 42-102502 / Chatterbox!

Delivered Cheyenne 9/3/44; Gr Island 29/3/44; Dow Fd 7/4/44; Assigned 100BG Thorpe Abbotts 7/4/44; transferred 339BS/96BG [QJ-G] Snetterton 8/4/44; Missing in Action Politz 25/8/44 with Chas Jennings, Co-pilot: Styrlin Scogin, Navigator: Delmar Woodruff, Bombardier: Don Merrill, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dewitt Deckert, Radio Operator: Bob Bowers, Waist gunner: Wayne Henley (7 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Ed Whitelaw,Tail gunner: Gene Weiss (2 Prisoner of War); flak knocked off wing, crashed Hagen, NW of Stettin, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 8283. CHATTERBOX!

Source: The B-17 Flying Fortress Story (Affiliate-Link/CommissionsEarned)

Last updated: 29. September 2017

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