Production-block:
B-17F-70-BO: 42-29732 to 42-29831
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 96th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 338th Bomb Squadron
MACR: 15631
History of
B-17 42-29748 / Paradise Lost
Delivered Denver 12/2/43; Walker 27/2/43; Salinas 10/3/43; Presque Is 5/4/43; Assigned: 338BS/96BG [BX- ] Grafton Underwood 27/4/43; Andrews Fd 13/5/43; Snetterton 12/6/43; MIA Kiel 13/6/43 Pilot: Howard Rossman, Co-Pilot: Leon Goode, Navigator: Paul Harris, Bombardier: Harry Crispin, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Lloyd Hunnicutt, Radio Operator: George O’Connell, Waist Gunner: Henry Metzner, Waist Gunner: Ray Walters (8KIA); Ball Turret Gunner: Lou Maxwell, Tail Gunner: Bill Godfrey (2POW); shot down by Enemy aircraft crashed near Kiel; MACR 15631. PARADISE LOST.
Last updated: 22. May 2018
27. February 2023 access_time 22:54
Thomas Lewis (Lou) Maxwell Ball Turret Gunner was a friend’s father. Mr. Maxwell inspired me to join the USAF. I wish I could recall all the stories he told me. Lou spent the war in a POW camp, then made a career in the USAF. He retired and settled in Murfreesboro TN, my home town.