Production-block:
B-17F-80-BO: 42-29932 to 42-30031
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 92nd Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 407th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: PY-S
MACR: 16055
History of
B-17 42-30003 / War Eagle
Delivered Cheyenne 28/3/43; Smoky Hill 4/4/43; Dow Fd 12/4/43; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY-S] Alconbury 25/4/43; Missing in Action Kiel 14/5/43 with Louis (Lowell) Walker, Co-pilot: Lester Kluever, Navigator: Ernie Bean, Bombardier: John Eder, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Everett Teaford, Radio Operator: Don Hutton, Ball turret gunner: Oscar Billings, Waist gunner: Bill Kiser, Waist gunner: John De Montmollin,Tail gunner: John Tucker (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Rendsburg, near Schwelsig, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 16055. WAR EAGLE.
Last updated: 27. June 2017
30. July 2018 access_time 3:40
My dad was Lowell Walker…piloted this plane and was in Stalag Luft 3 for over two years.
26. February 2019 access_time 0:40
My father, 1st Lt. John C. Eder, was the co-pilot of this plane when it was shot down. He spent the remainder of the war in Stalag Luft III. I am looking for information on the plane’s crash site and the site of the capture of the surviving crewmembers in anticipation of a trip to Germany in the near future.
Do these records exist in Germany? The U.S. military MACR (Missing Aircrew Report) is not specific as to these details.
01. September 2018 access_time 14:43
I grew up next to SSgt. Kiser and had the honor of calling him my friend. Your webpage has him listed as waist gunner but that information is incorrect Bill was the tailgunner. Bill was a POW in Stalag 17B
21. October 2022 access_time 6:11
My father, Everett Kenneth Teaford, was the radio operator on the War Eagle when it was shot down and parachuted near Kiel on May 14, 1943. Dad was liberated from Stalag 17B on May 3, 1945. Does anyone have a picture of the plane?