Production-block:
B-17G-5-VE: 42-39858 to 42-39957
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomb Group:
- 94th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 331st Bomb Squadron
- RCL: QE-K
MACR: 1067
History of
B-17 42-39868
Delivered Long Beach 23/9/43; Gr Island 6/10/43; ass 331BS/94BG [QE-K] Rougham 27/11/43; MIA Munster 11/11/43 Pilot: Bob O’Hara, Co-Pilot: John Wolf, Navigator: Bob Combs{body not recovered}, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Herman Jeschke, Ball Turret Gunner: John Petrus, Waist Gunner: Don Savage, Waist Gunner: Ray Hicklin (7KIA); Bombardier: Bob Becker, Radio Operator: Ed Goldstein, Tail Gunner: John Czwak (3POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed in water near Numansdorp, 12 miles S of Rotterdam, Hol; MACR 1067.
Last updated: 3. September 2018
04. February 2022 access_time 12:54
Sometimes I see the name Bob Becker and other times Robert Becker, my grandmother told me that that is her father (2nd Lieutenant Robert William Becker), I’m trying to dig up more information on him and what happened, where he was held prisoner etc. From what I have found l, he survived the camp and was liberated, which for a 3 year captivity by the Nazis and the SS was mostly in charge of POW camps and obvious other camps, it would be hard to make it 3 years without a stable plan from a resistance from inside.