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Source:
www.flensted.eu.com
Production-block:
B-17G-5-BO: 42-31132 to 42-31231
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 447th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 708th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: CG-L
MACR: 3824
History of
B-17 42-31156 / Big Stoop
Delivered Dallas 26/9/43; Gr Island 13/10/43; Assigned 708BS/447BG [CG-L] Rattlesden 19/11/43; Missing in Action Rostock 11/4/44 with Howard Pauling, Co-pilot: Lauren Davis, Bombardier: Paul Scherer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Glen Standish, Waist gunner: Leo Kingston,Tail gunner: Elvin Albaum (6 Returned to Duty); Navigator: Ernie Morman, Radio Operator: Paul Knight, Ball turret gunner: Jim Prusa, Waist gunner: Henry McCowan (4 Prisoner of War); flak, crash landed Bornholm Is, near Ibsker, Den. Missing Air Crew Report 3824. BIG STOOP.
Last updated: 19. March 2018
B-17 42-31156 / Big Stoop Details
05. April 2022 access_time 22:48
My dad was the ball turret gunner on this crew. I met nearly everyone of these fine gentlemen over the years – now all gone. Paul Knight and Henry ‘Hank’ McCowan were POWs with my dad in Stallag-Luft 17 – like my uncles.
Feel free to contact me: jimprusa@hotmail.com or jgp@Alumni-GSB.Stanford.edu
27. February 2024 access_time 2:33
My dad was Lauren Davis,co-pilot of Big Stoop.
Of the crew of ten, he was one of the lucky six who were not captured by the Germans, and made it to Sweden with the help of the Danish underground.
All ten of the crew did make it back to the U.S. eventually and had reunion(s) in the 1980’s.
Lauren died in 1994, almost 50 years to the day that Big Stoop landed on Bornholm Island.