B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-39859 / Sweet Sue aka Miss Mary

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-39859 / Sweet Sue aka Miss Mary
General
Manufacturer: Lockheed/Vega
Production-Block: , B-17G-5-VE: 42-39858 to 42-39957
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 94th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 332nd Bomb Squadron
RCL: XM-P
Fate: , Lost by enemy aircraft
(11 December 1943)
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History of
B-17 42-39859 / Sweet Sue aka Miss Mary

Delivered Long Beach 23/9/43; Gr Island 15/10/43; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-P] Rougham 26/10/43; Missing in Action Emden 11/12/43 with Burwell Capehart, Co-pilot: Les Smith, Navigator: Verne Viterbo, Bombardier: Burdette Wright, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Babcock, Radio Operator: Bob Kirkpatrick (6 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Sid Landis, Waist gunner: Ben Jones, Waist gunner: Lloyd Hadley,Tail gunner: Francis Castle (4 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Oudeschip, Delfzijl, in River Eems estuary, Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 1258. SWEET SUE aka MISS MARY.

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