Production-block:
B-17G-15-BO: 42-31332 to 42-31431
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 97th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 341st Bomb Squadron
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History of
B-17 42-31379
Delivered Cheyenne 29/10/43; Assigned 341BS/97BG Depienne 6/12/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Missing in Action Bucharest 7/5/44 with Jim Galloway, Young, Prophater, Marshall, Wood, Poceicha, Marshall, Cassity, Johnson, Trout, Downen, Smith (10 Returned to Duty); ditched Adriatic, off Bari, all rescued.
Last updated: 18. May 2017
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14. January 2023 access_time 7:42
The Pociecha listed to this plane was my great uncle Raymond(1919-2011). I’m pretty sure he was the navigator. On this specific flight on may 7th, 1944, he has said that there actually was a single casualty, a secret Italian diplomat that was onboard. After he and the rest of the crew were rescued in the Adriatic, Ray and a lot of the same names were assigned to a new b-17, 42-3383/Spirit of McCook. When this plane “exploded over Bucharest” he survived, but taken as a pow in Romania. He said the Romanian prisons were quite nice, very well maintained, and was regularly visited by a princess named Catherine.