B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-37868 / Due Back

History of
B-17 42-37868 / Due Back

Delivered Denver 25/9/43; Harvard 15/10/43; Assigned 708BS/447BG [CQ-B] Rattlesden 19/11/43; Missing in Action Fredrichshafen 29/4/44 with Carl Blom, Co-pilot: Wallace Lane, Navigator: Dudley Davis, Bombardier: Dare Ziemer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Windsor Graham, Waist gunner: Dick Ferrighetto (6 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Arthur Watt, Ball turret gunner: Lloyd Arthur, Waist gunner: Ike Guyton,Tail gunner: Bob Tobin (4 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Grasleben, six miles N of Helmstedt, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4251.

Last updated: 18. June 2017