B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-107089

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-107089
General
Manufacturer: Douglas
Production-Block: , B-17G-35-DL: 42-106984 to 42-107233
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 452nd Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 728th Bomb Squadron
MACR 4780
Fate: , Lost by enemy aircraft
(12 May 1944)
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History of
B-17 42-107089

Delivered Tulsa 17/2/44; Gr Island 27/2/44; Grenier 6/3/44; Assigned 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 13/3/44; Missing in Action Brux 12/5/44 with Boris Slanin, Waist gunner: Clarry Palmeter,Tail gunner: Fred Myron (3 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Lt Col Bob Tuttle, Navigator: Irving Mortin, Bombardier: Chas Prigmore, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Russ Goodwin{Wounded in Action}, Radio Operator: Bob Griffin{Wounded in Action}, Ball turret gunner: Gene McRay, Waist gunner: Rinaldo Giombetti{Wounded in Action} (7 Prisoner of War); shot down by FW 190 which KOd #3 and cockpit, crashed Budesheim, six miles NW of Hanau, near Frankfurt, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4780.

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