Production-block:
B-17G-30-BO 42-31732 to 42-31931
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 463rd Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 773rd Bomb Squadron
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History of
B-17 42-31861 / Ragged But Right
Delivered Denver 28/12/43; Columbus 16/1/44; Lakeland 18/1/44; Morrison 18/2/44; Assigned 773BS/463BG Celone 20/2/44; flak damage Blechhammer, Ger. 13/9/44; Ditched into the Adriatic Sea and lost.
Last updated: 11. June 2018
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20. April 2023 access_time 3:33
My Great Uncle Hank Ford was navigator on this bird. Our family still has his flight logs.
04. May 2025 access_time 2:33
Mike, Michael O. Austin, my uncle and namesake, was a gunner on this flight. I am trying to learn more about the organization that rescued the aircrew after ditching and how they were returned to their Squadron. In his letters home, my uncle was very careful about classified information, so we know nothing of their rescue and return. Unfortunately, he was killed along with most of his aircrew on October 13, 1944 during a bombing mission near Vienna Austria, so the family never heard the story of the ditching and rescue. I’m hoping that your records will reveal some information. Thanks, Mike