42-29896 / Tondelayo | B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress

B-17 #42-29896 / Tondelayo — **Source:**
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Production-block:
B-17F-75-BO: 42-29832 to 42-29931

Manufacturer:
Boeing

Bomb Group:
379th Bomb Group

Bomb Squadron:
527th Bomb Squadron

RCL: FO-Y/V

Fate:

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History of
B-17 42-29896 / Tondelayo

Delivered Cheyenne 5/3/43; Sioux City 20/3/43; Tinker 28/3/43; Kearney 8/4/43; Dow Fd 16/4/43. Assigned 527BS/379BG [FO-Y/V] Kimbolton 2/5/43. Missing in Action Stuttgart 6/9/43 with Bohn Fawkes, Co-pilot: Chas Mauldin, Navigator: Elmer Bendiner, Bombardier: Bob Hejny, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Larry Reedman, Radio Operator: Fred Reinhard, Ball turret gunner: Walt Gray, Waist gunner: John Leary, Waist gunner: Harry Edwards,Tail gunner: Mike Arooth (10 Returned to Duty); ditched Channel, all rescued by Air Sea Rescue launch HSL180 from Dover, Kent, UK. No MACR. TONDELAYO.

Source: Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log*

Last updated: 2. July 2019

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B-17 42-29896 / Tondelayo Crew

Position	Rank	Name	Status	Note
P	2LT	Bohn E. Fawkes, Jr.	RTD	-
CP	2LT	Charles A. Mauldin	RTD	-
NAV	2LT	Elmer S. Bendiner	RTD	-
BOMB	2LT	Robert L. Hejny	RTD	-
ENG/TT	T/SGT	Lawrence H. Reedman	RTD	-
RO	T/SGT	Frederick J. Reinhard	RTD	-
BT	T/SGT	Walter J. Gray	RTD	-
WG	S/SGT	John A. Leary	RTD	-
WG	S/SGT	Harry L. Edwards	RTD	-
TG	T/SGT	Michael Arooth	RTD	-

Brent Chambers
25. April 2019 0:57

Elmer Bendiner, the navigator, wrote an excellent personal account of his air war. Title is _Fall of Fortresses_. He actually does note the different ways B17’s fall and how likely the crew will be to get out.

Bart
18. March 2021 4:45

I was very fortunate to find it on this book on the sale table at Barnes & Noble 25 years ago. The high point of the book can be found excerpted elsewhere on the web–the incident of the empty German shells that pierced one of the B-17’s gas tanks without exploding. Inside one shell was a message in Czech: “This is all we can do for you now,” apparently from a forced laborer in a German munitions plant, doing what little he(she?) could for the war effort.