B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-3099

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-3099
General
Manufacturer: Douglas
Production-Block: , B-17F-25-DL: 42-3074 to 42-3148
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 379th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 527th Bomb Squadron
RCL FO-R
MACR 1368
Fate: , Lost by enemy aircraft, Lost by flak/aa-fire
(11 June 1943)
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History of
B-17 42-3099

Delivered Denver 4/3/43; Dow Fd 19/4/43; Assigned 527BS/379BG [FO-R] Kimbolton 26/4/43; Missing in Action Wilhelmshafen 11/6/43 with Bill Pinson (POW-picked up by German minesweeper R88); Co-pilot: Reed Lamb, Navigator: Davis Murdock, Bombardier: Leroy Self, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Sendzick, Radio Operator: Carrol Lohman, Ball turret gunner: Harry Anderson, Waist gunner: Larus Snydal, Waist gunner: Harry Northey,Tail gunner: Cleon Biddle (9 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft & flak hits, crashed near Borkum, near Juist Island, North Sea. Missing Air Crew Report 1368.

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