B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-32071 / Moonbeam McSwine aka Nine Wolves and Poppa aka Freddie H

History of
B-17 42-32071 / Moonbeam McSwine aka Nine Wolves and Poppa aka Freddie H

Delivered Cheyenne 21/1/44; MacDill 4/2/44; Morrison 7/3/44; Assigned 817BS/483BG Tortorella 11/3/44; transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44 MOONBEAM McSWINE; re-named NINE WOLVES & POPPA; Missing in Action {93m} Graz, Aus. 8/2/45 with Harry Schuld, Sumerall, Hagins, Agronow, Molnar, Kulberg, Goodwin, Wrona, Conley (8 Killed in Action); Frank Smith, Kosczyarek (2 Prisoner of War); mid air coll with 44-6691, crashed Kapsovar; Missing Air Crew Report 12082. FREDDY-H.

B-17 42-32071 / Moonbeam McSwine aka Nine Wolves and Poppa aka Freddie H Details

Mid-air-collision with B-17 #44-6691 on 08 February 1945.