B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-29956 / Vertical Shaft

Delivered Denver 17/3/43; Cheyenne 6/4/43; Sioux City 14/4/43; Kearney 4/5/43; Dow Fd 24/5/43; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-B] Grafton Underwood 29/5/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Jesse Hausenfluck, Co-pilot: Don MacKenzie (2 Killed in Action); Navigator: Chas Everson, Bombardier: Bob Kennedy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Kilcourse, Radio Operator: John Kelly, Ball turret gunner: Jim Traylor, Waist gunner: Sebastian Buchari, Waist gunner: Tom Randolph,Tail gunner: John Blauer (8 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed St Goarshausen, 18 miles SE of Koblenz, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 296. VERTICAL SHAFT.