Production-block:
B-17F-105-BO: 42-30432 to 42-30531
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 99th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 348th Bomb Squadron
MACR: 924 & 6615
History of
B-17 42-30446
Delivered Cheyenne 1/6/43; Gore 12/6/43; Smoky Hill 14/6/43; Tinker 22/6/43; Kearney 26/6/43; Eglin 7/7/43; Dow Fd 9/7/43; Assigned 348BS/99BG Navarin 29/7/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Missing in Action Athens 10/10/43 with Sam Gilmore, Co-pilot: Hantman, Navigator: John Staffo, Cleaver, Hill, Meyers, Stankus, Wehby, Hinkle; five chutes seen; Rohrer (evaded capture); Missing Air Crew Reports 924 & 6615.
Last updated: 9. February 2019
25. October 2019 access_time 14:13
My great uncle Curtis Hinkle was the belly gunner on this ld girl he enlisted when he turned 18 2 years after his older brother my grandfather Walter Hinkle was captured on Corragadoir and survived the Death March of Baton he was liberated from a Japanese POW camp in 45 and retired from the Marine Corps in 1962 . I was wounded in 2007 in Iraq and while i lay in a comma my younger brothers enlisted in he Corps and Navy it must be in our blood, I was wounded again in Afghanistan and a now retired and my brothers are still serving
18. November 2023 access_time 5:22
I have a photo of Flight Engineer SSgt. Dick Cleaner and Radio Operator Sgt. William Hill in a jeep taken by Tail Gunner Sgt. Richard Meyers at Casper, WY in early 43.