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Source:
www.fold3.com
Production-block:
B-17G-5-VE: 42-39858 to 42-39957
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomb Group:
- 390th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 570th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: DI-N
MACR: 4585
Missions: 41
History of
B-17 42-39911 / Mary Lou
Delivered Long Beach 5/10/43; Gr Island 17/11/43; ass 570BS/390BG [DI-N] Framlingham 18/11/43; MIA Berlin [41m] 8/5/44 Pilot: Wallace Simmons, Co-Pilot: Tom Lawson, Navigator: Frank Silke, Bombardier: Francis Lambert, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Carroll Graves, Ball Turret Gunner: Ed Cote, Waist Gunner: Grover Dycus, Waist Gunner: Chas Melnek (8POW); Radio Operator: Dan Haggert, Tail Gunner: Gene Pilgrim (2KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed Harmissen, near Sustedt, ten miles NW of Hoya,, Germany. MACR 4585. MARY LOU.
Last updated: 4. November 2018
04. April 2020 access_time 18:58
the crew in top photo includes pilot james wilkinson, my father, in center. His plane was the mary Lou but must have switched to another or missed that flight as he never crashed.
03. January 2022 access_time 2:04
Can you contact me? I believe that was was grandfather’s plane but my family doesn’t recognize him in the pic… He was shot down over germany and held captive….
21. July 2023 access_time 17:51
i have other photos of this plane.. chadaz34@yahoo.com