Production-block:
B-17F-85-BO: 42-30032 to 42-30131
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 100th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 351st Bomb Squadron
- RCL: EP-J
MACR: 685
History of
B-17 42-30051 / Nevada Wildcat
Delivered Cheyenne 3/4/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Wendover 2/5/43; Hill 15/5/43; Wendover 18/5/43; Kearney 23/5/43; Dow Fd 28/5/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP- ] Thorpe Abbotts 1/6/43; Missing in Action La Pallice 4/7/43 with Bob Pearson, Co-pilot: Melville Boyd{broke arm], Navigator: Bruce Rinker, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jack Goss, Radio Operator: Randall Villa, Ball turret gunner: Everett Moore, Waist gunner: John Westwood, Waist gunner: Lorrie Rutledge,Tail gunner: Albt Purcell (9 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: John Dunbar (evaded capture); ship lost power on two engines, and a third shot out by Me 109, crashed three miles W of La Pallice, near Isle D’Orlean, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 685. NEVADA WILDCAT.
Last updated: 29. September 2017
16. March 2023 access_time 0:15
My dad, Jack Goss was on this crew. He was captured, I had thought with all but Dunbar. POW in Stalag 17-B. This was the ship’s maiden bombing run . Dunbar wrote a book about his escape with help from French resistance called “Escape Through the Pyrenees “.