B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-30817 / Miss Flower III

History of
B-17 42-30817 / Miss Flower III

Delivered Cheyenne 4/8/43; Grand Isle 11/8/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-G] Horham 15/6/43; with M.L. Crowder force landed RAF Harwarden 16/9/43; with John Adams force landed RAF Fiston 26/9/43; Missing in Action (9m) Munster 10/10/43 with Capt John Adams, Co-pilot: Tom Barber, Navigator: Ken Winegar, Bombardier: Earl DeWolf, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Marshall Crow, Radio Operator: Jerome Pubantz, Ball turret gunner: Mike Szewyck, Waist gunner: Orwin Tylseth, Waist gunner: Wallace Watts,Tail gunner: Jim Baker (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft ko’d engine, crashed Wenning-Hegemann railway station, near Steinfurt-Borghorst, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1044, MISS FLOWER III.

Last updated: 1. June 2019