B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-30000

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-30000
General
Manufacturer: Boeing
Production-Block: , B-17F-80-BO: 42-29932 to 42-30031
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 92nd Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 325th Bomb Squadron, 327th Bomb Squadron
RCL NV-C, UX-D
MACR 741
Fate: , Lost by enemy aircraft
(06 September 1943)
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History of
B-17 42-30000

Delivered Cheyenne 25/3/43; Smoky Hill 3/4/43; Dow Fd 15/4/43; Assigned 96BG Grafton Underwood 22/4/43; transferred 325BS/92BG [NV-C] Alconbury 24/4/43; then 327BG [UX-D]; Missing in Action T/Ops 6/9/43 with Wayne Bogard, Navigator: Jim McGrew, Waist gunner: Frank Lusic (3 Prisoner of War), Co-pilot: Bob Larsen, Bombardier: Taylor Harrison, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Art Beach, Radio Operator: Max Gibbs, Ball turret gunner: Floyd Carl, Waist gunner: Herschell Richardson,Tail gunner: Cloe Crutchfield (7 evaded capture); enemy aircraft, crashed near Estissac, 12 miles W of Troyes, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 741.

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