B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-31517

Delivered Denver 16/11/43; Pendleton 24/11/43; with Leon Sachs force landed Denver, Co 8/12/43; Salt Lake 12/12/43; Wendover 14/12/43; Assigned 748BS/457BG [A] Glatton 15/12/43; Missing in Action Augsburg 25/2/44 with Jim Chinn, Co-pilot: Bob Cooper, Radio Operator: Bob Mullins, Ball turret gunner: Bill Sullivan, Waist gunner: Dillard Engdahl, Waist gunner: Marion Ross,Tail gunner: Jeremiah Rolison (7 Killed in Action); Navigator: Frank McNichol, Bombardier: John Vollmuth, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Vito Peragine (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Mont St Martin, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 3003.