B-17 Flying Fortress - Photo of B-17 42-31051
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Delivered Cheyenne 11/9/43; Gr Island 21/9/43; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-R] Thorpe Abbotts 3/11/43; then 351BS [EP-K]; Missing in Action Oranienburg 6/3/44 with Bob Koper, Navigator: George Wing, Radio Operator: Mike Tanowich, Ball turret gunner: Chas Luquette, Waist gunner: Art Frankel, Waist gunner: Ralph Zarzecki,Tail gunner: Bernie Sundin (7 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Gordon Lien, Bombardier: Tom Drinkwater, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Corea (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft attacked and ship exploded, crashed Elsten, nine miles S of Cloppenburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3018. GOIN' JESSIE.