B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-37872

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-37872
General
Manufacturer: Douglas
Production-Block: , B-17G-15-DL: 42-37804 to 42-37893
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 447th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 708th Bomb Squadron
MACR 1688
Fate: , Lost by enemy aircraft
(05 January 1944)
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History of
B-17 42-37872

Delivered Denver 27/9/43; Harvard 13/10/43; Assigned 708BS/447BG Rattlesden 21/11/43; Missing in Action Bordeaux 5/1/44 with Dick Huff, Co-pilot: Bill Brooks, Navigator: Angelo Landolfo, Bombardier: Bill Boggess, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dan Zullo, Radio Operator: Millard Patterson, Ball turret gunner: Paul Eberhardt (7 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Joe Luxenberger, Waist gunner: Ernie Thorgren,Tail gunner: Karl Shockley (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Bassin d’Arcachon, near Gujan on Bay of Biscay, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 1688.

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