B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-31343

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-31343
General
Manufacturer: Boeing
Production-Block: , B-17G-15-BO: 42-31332 to 42-31431
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 96th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 338th Bomb Squadron
RCL: BX-E
MACR: 4855
Fate: , Lost by enemy aircraft
(12 May 1944)
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History of
B-17 42-31343

Delivered Cheyenne 23/10/43; Gr Island 3/11/43; Memphis 28/11/43; Assigned: 338BS/96BG [BX-E] Snetterton 5/12/43; MIA Zwickau 12/5/44 Pilot: Bob Lewis, Co-Pilot: Gustav Soderlund, Navigator: George Korty, Bombardier: Ken Foote, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Carl Duff, Radio Operator: Dyton Herrin (6KIA); Ball Turret Gunner: Paul Howard, Waist Gunner: Ken Elliott, Waist Gunner: Alex Klecha, Tail Gunner: Forrest Corley (4POW); Enemy aircraft set aircraft on fire, four baled but then a/c exploded, crashed Wehrheim, eight miles S of Friedburg, NW of Frankfurt, Germany. MACR 4855.

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