B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-31157 / Red Ass aka Red Donkey

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-31157 / Red Ass aka Red Donkey
General
Manufacturer: Boeing
Production-Block: , B-17G-5-BO: 42-31132 to 42-31231
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 447th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 709th Bomb Squadron
MACR 2533
Fate: , Lost by flak/aa-fire
(13 February 1944)
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History of
B-17 42-31157 / Red Ass aka Red Donkey

Delivered: Dallas 25/9/43; Gr Island 14/10/43; Assigned: 709BS/447BG Rattlesden 23/11/43; MIA Pas de Calais 13/2/44 Pilot: Don McDonald, Co-Pilot: Norman Masett, Navigator: Orlando Hamlin, Bombardier: Tom Ellison, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Larry LePage, Radio Operator: Rich Plouck, Ball Turret Gunner: John Hagan, Waist Gunner: Jim Pitts, Waist Gunner: Ed Patterson, Tail Gunner: Henry Abelmann (10POW); flak, crashed Fraincourt-St-Quentin, 17 miles W of Abbeville, Fr. MACR 2533. RED ASS, possibly (DONKEY).

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