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Production-block:
B-17G-20-BO: 42-31432 to 42-31631
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 457th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 750th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: D
MACR: 5905
History of
B-17 42-31618 / Our Baby
Delivered Cheyenne 28/11/43; Rock Springs 8/12/43; Wendover 9/12/43; Grenier 20/1/44; Assigned 750BS/457BG [D] Glatton 27/1/44; 748BS; Missing in Action Florennes 14/6/44 with Jim LaPaze, Bombardier: Chas Rogers, Radio Operator: Elmer Velicer, Ball turret gunner: Delbert Brookhart (4 Returned to Duty); Co-pilot: Lou McGranahan, Navigator: Keith Morgan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Henry Baker, Waist gunner: Oscar Hightower,Tail gunner: Chester Hudec (5 Killed in Action); flak damage, crew bailed off Hastings, Sussex, UK, aircraft crashed Channel; Missing Air Crew Report 5905. OUR BABY.
Last updated: 11. October 2017
30. March 2021 access_time 19:25
My paternal Grandfather, second Lieutenant James Lewis Tyree of the U.S. Army air Corps was Obama deer on this plane, “Our baby” and I have the photo of the crew in front of the plane At grand island Nebraska before leaving for North Africa in 1943. All crewmembers with him in the photo except for him were shot down over Regensburg Austria. One was killed and the rest captured. One amputee and one paralyzed.