B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-37791 / Blues In The Night

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-37791 / Blues In The Night
General
Manufacturer: Douglas
Production-Block: , B-17G-10-DL: 42-37721 to 42-37803
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 303rd Bomb Group, 379th Bomb Group, 384th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 526th Bomb Squadron, 546th Bomb Squadron
RCL BK-
MACR 4558
Fate: , Lost by flak/aa-fire
(07 May 1944)
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History of
B-17 42-37791 / Blues In The Night

Delivered Denver 30/8/43; Scott 27/9/43; Assigned 303BG Molesworth 19/10/43; 1 BAD 23/10/43; transferred 546BS/384BG [BK- ] Grafton Underwood 2/11/43; then 526BS/379BG [LF-S] Kimbolton 7/11/43; Missing in Action Berlin 7/5/44 with Tom Smith, Co-pilot: Bob Scase, Navigator: Jim Chamberlain, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leon Woznakiewicz, Radio Operator: George Bilohlavek, Ball turret gunner: Francis Zamble, Waist gunner: Dan Killingsworth,Tail gunner: Walter French (8 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Tom Morrison (Prisoner of War); flak KOd #3, then exploded before crew could bale out, crashed Wittenburg-Zarrentin road, 28 miles SE of Lubeck , Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 4558. BLUES IN THE NIGHT.

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