Production-block:
B-17G-20-BO: 42-31432 to 42-31631
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 96th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 339th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: QJ-G
MACR: 3426
History of
B-17 42-31576
Delivered Denver 20/11/43; Gt Falls 25/11/43; Kearney 22/12/43; Romulus 31/12/43; Presque Is 2/1/44; Assigned: 339BS/96BG [QJ-G] Snetterton 16/1/44; MIA Erkner 8/3/44 Pilot: Dick Lemanski, Co-Pilot: Jim Buttermore, Navigator: Leroy Chappell, Bombardier: Frank Sewell, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Matt Mendys, Radio Operator: Dave Hohm, Ball Turret Gunner: Phil Kierstead, Waist Gunner: Jeff Roberts, Waist Gunner: Edgar Currie, Tail Gunner: Dean Shuck (10POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed between Wegenstedt & Calvorden, 13 miles NE of Helmstadt A/Fd, Germany. MACR 3426.
Last updated: 17. March 2019
09. June 2020 access_time 1:33
My mothers cousin, James W Buttermore was the co-pilot on this aircraft when it was shot down, 8 March, 1944. He was in a POW Luft Stalag 1 until the end of the war and returned home to Findley, Ohio. He lived there with his wife Donna until 1984-85 when he passed.
08. December 2023 access_time 17:03
My grandfather was Dick Lemanski. He was the pilot and spent time with Buttermore at Luft Stalag 1. He passed in 2009.