Production-block:
B-17F-55-BO: 42-29467 to 42-29531
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 99th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 347th Bomb Squadron
Fate:
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History of
B-17 42-29490 / Axis Ass-Ache
Delivered Cheyenne 22/12/42; Salina 7/1/43; DeRidder 31/1/43; Morrison 4/2/43; Assigned 347BS/99BG Navarin 20/2/43; battle damaged Terni 14/10/43 with Wardwell, Campbell [brought aircraft home {64m}], Kimball, Stevens, Schultz, Higgins, Skillicorn, Gerside, Foster, Alumbaugh; Oudna 4/8/43; crash landed Sardinia 8/11/43 ex-Turin with Carson, Jamieson [brought aircraft home]; O’Connell, Rahe, Vance, Riley, Emond, Dobbs, Mohney, Weide all bailed OK return 10/11/43. Written off. AXIS ASS-ACHE.
Last updated: 4. April 2018
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25. December 2019 access_time 3:43
Was my father Orlo F. Duker involved with this aircraft?
25. December 2019 access_time 20:19
Hello Walt,
I have no information about this fact. But I believe your father is on this photo with the B-17 #42-3189: https://b17flyingfortress.de/en/b17/42-3189-red-ass-superstitious-aloysius/42-3189-photo/
21. March 2023 access_time 23:06
good friend of mine was waist gunner on 1). axis ass ache and 2) dirty gerty(sp). did 50 missions n. Africa and Foggia Italy. He has passed and I have a copy of his soldiers diary of all 50 missions. on Oct 14 1943, the date this plane was out of service, he went on a mission that day but no mention of loosing this plane but he was likely already in his last plane.