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Source:
www.fold3.com
Production-block:
B-17G-25-BO: 42-31632 to 42-31731
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 351st Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 510th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: TU-S
MACR: 5334
History of
B-17 42-31721 / Black Magic
Delivered Denver 10/12/43; Kearney 24/12/43; Assigned 510BS/351BG [TU-S] Polebrook 29/1/44; {36m} Missing in Action Dessau 28/5/44 with Clyde McClelland, Co-pilot: Dick Francis, Navigator: John Duncan, Bombardier: George Kiely, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Louis Poole, Radio Operator: Leon Kriesky, Ball turret gunner: Nathan Williams, Waist gunner: Junior Edwards (8 Prisoner of War);Tail gunner: Leroy Cruse (KIA- when in chute shot by civilian); enemy aircraft KOd #1 and #2 on return, then lost a third, crashed Mernes, five miles E of Bad Orb, 25 miles SW of Fulda, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5334. BLACK MAGIC.
Last updated: 12. April 2018
05. June 2019 access_time 18:57
There are still a Lot of parts at the Crash place…just twenty minutes from my hohe..
09. January 2023 access_time 22:35
Hello, I am doing a biography on Richard Francis, co-pilot. Could you be so kind to send some pictures of the crash site for his daughter. Richard survived. Thank you!!!!