B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies
B-17 42-37737 / Tennessee Toddy

Production-block:
B-17G-10-DL: 42-37721 to 42-37803

Manufacturer:
Douglas

• 91st Bomb Group
• 401st Bomb Squadron
• RCL: LL-K

• Lost by mechanical fault
• 10 October 1943

MACR: 1941

Delivered Denver 10/8/43; Long Beach 13/8/43; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-K] Bassingbourn 26/9/43; Missing in Action 1m Munster 10/10/43 with Earl Verrill, Co-pilot: Joe Rose, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Roy Jackson, Radio Operator: Ross Repp, Ball turret gunner: Gilbert Taft, Waist gunner: Paul Lorman, Waist gunner: Stan Lepkowski,Tail gunner: Bob DeGhetto (8 Prisoner of War), Navigator: Art Horning (EVD-returned UK 30/1/44), Bombardier: John Lilley (KIA-chute caught on stabilizer); mech fault lost two engines, #4 & #2, crash landed Brocklanderweg, near Apeldoorn, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 1941. TENNESSEE TODDY.

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