Production-block:
B-17F-125-BO: 42-30832 to 42-30931
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 305th Bomb Group
- RCL: JJ-O
History of
B-17 42-30838 / Paper Doll
Delivered Cheyenne 5/8/43; Redmond 15/8/43; Assigned 422NLS/305BG [JJ-O] Chelveston 1/10/43; Tran 858BS 24/6/44 Harrington. PAPER DOLL.
Last updated: 9. February 2019
24. May 2023 access_time 23:17
My Father Robert Wayn Hampton Flew on this Bird. I have a photo of him with the flight crew
29. May 2023 access_time 1:37
My father was bombardier on the Paper Doll. While at Chelveston between 10/1943 and 6/1944, the Paper Doll was assigned to the 8th Air Force, 305 Bomb Group, 422 Squadron and executed around 50 solo night-time missions over occupied Europe dropping paper leaflets. Crew during that time were: Pilot-Jerome (Pat) Fallon; Co-pilot-Edward Henry; Navigator-Howard Bacon; Bombardier-Gerrit Vander Schaaf; Royden Boothe; Lenwood Elmore; Charles Sanborn; Henry Smith; Lawrence Wallich; Frank Kostecki. Data from back of photos and partial log book. Do not know the assignments of the enlisted crew.