| General | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer: | Douglas |
| Production-Block: | , B-17G-15-DL: 42-37804 to 42-37893 |
| Operational History | |
|---|---|
| Bomb Group: | , 94th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group |
| Bomb Squadron: | , 332nd Bomb Squadron, 410th Bomb Squadron, 413th Bomb Squadron |
| RCL: | GL-N, XM-F, MZ-V |
| MACR: | 1388 |
| Fate: |
, Mid-air collision (13 November 1943) |
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History of
B-17 42-37830
Delivered Denver 16/9/43; Scott 29/9/43; ass 410BS/94BG [GL-N] Rougham 8/10/43, then 332BS [XM-F]; trans 413BS/96BG [MZ-V] Snetterton 10/43; MIA Bremen 13/11/43 Pilot: Henry Marks, Navigator: Bernie Cress, Bombardier: Ben Ehrlich, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Bill Fuhrman, Radio Operator: Maurice Wren, Ball Turret Gunner: Maurice Bowen, Tail Gunner: Edmund O’Rourke (7KIA); Co-Pilot: Wilbur Brown (EVD), Waist Gunner: Francis Ferrick, Waist Gunner: Gene Fennell (2POW); mid-air coll w/B-17, crashed Ommen, Hol; MACR 1388.
Information may include corrections and additions based on Jing’s research.
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This page was last updated on 24 February 2019
26. July 2020 access_time 22:14
The bombardier, 2LT Ben Ehrlich, was a cousin through marriage. I found his gravestone in 1993 while attending my own grandmother’s funeral in Bainbridge, GA. His plane crashed in Holland where a young woman, Eleanor “Dicky” Weile, was captured by the Nazis for the crime of being born Jewish. She would spend over 2 1/2 years in nine different concentration camps before being liberated. After the war she immigrated to the USA and married my cousin, Sidney Ehrlich, and raise a family of her own to replace the one she had lost. It is a small world.
26. July 2020 access_time 22:33
It‘s a very small world. I was on the way to a friend today, when a Mercedes was in front of my car. 20 minutes later, on the way back to home. The same Mercedes was again in front of me. A small world.
Thank you for sharing your family‘s story.