B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-39849

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-39849
General
Manufacturer: Lockheed/Vega
Production-Block: , B-17G-1-VE: 42-39758 to 42-39857
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 351st Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 508th Bomb Squadron
RCL YB-K
MACR 3314
Fate: , Lost by flak/aa-fire
(22 March 1944)
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History of
B-17 42-39849

Delivered Long Beach 18/9/43; Scott 19/10/43 ass 401BG Deenethorpe 27/10/43; Transferred: 508BS/351BG [YB-K] Polebrook 18/11/43; MIA {24m} Berlin 22/3/44 Pilot: Wyman Slosson{kept ship going so crew could bale out}, Tail Gunner: Warren Beahr (2KIA); Co-Pilot: Dave Smithline, Navigator: Joe Daugherty, Bombardier: Jim Higgins, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jim Green, Radio Operator: Ed DeMatteo, Ball Turret Gunner: Don Power, Waist Gunner: Verlyn Brown, Waist Gunner: Emette Highland (8POW); flak, crashed Altlandsberg, Oberbarnim, , due E of Berlin, Germany. MACR 3314.

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