B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-3237 / Stymie

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-3237 / Stymie
General
Manufacturer: Douglas
Production-Block: , B-17F-40-DL: 42-3229 to 42-3283
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 100th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 418th Bomb Squadron
RCL LD-R
MACR 1030
Fate: , Lost by enemy aircraft, Lost by flak/aa-fire
(10 October 1943)
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History of
B-17 42-3237 / Stymie

Delivered Cheyenne 5/4/43; Dow Fd 30/5/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-R] Podington 31/5/43; Thorpe Abbotts 9/6/43; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with John Stephens, Co-pilot: Hoyt Smith, Navigator: Rudi Grum, Bombardier: Bill Moore, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Shay, Radio Operator: Carl Battin{Wounded in Action}, Ball turret gunner: Max Drudge{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Bill Young, Waist gunner: George Knolle,Tail gunner: Casi Paczynski (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft damage, and further damaged by flak when limping home low over Germany, then bellied in at Holthausen, near Ramsdorf, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1030. STYMIE.

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