42-39950 / Wampus Cat | B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress

B-17 #42-39950 / Wampus Cat — **Source:**
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General
Manufacturer:	Lockheed/Vega
Production-Block:	, B-17G-5-VE: 42-39858 to 42-39957
Delievered:	Long Beach
Project No.:	92297-R

Operational History
Bomb Group:	, 306th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron:	, 423rd Bomb Squadron
RCL	RD-K
MACR	3481
Fate:	, Lost by enemy aircraft (29 March 1944)
Missions:	22

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History of
B-17 42-39950 / Wampus Cat

Delivered Long Beach 16/10/43; Gr Island 8/11/43; Assigned 423BS/306 BG [RD-K] Thurleigh 18/12/43; Missing in Action Brunswick 29/3/44; enemy aircraft set fuselage alight, crash landed Polder Ronde Hoep, Ouder-Amstel, seven miles SW of Amsterdam, Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 3481. WAMPUS CAT.

Source: The B-17 Flying Fortress Story (Affiliate-Link/CommissionsEarned)

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B-17 42-39950 / Wampus Cat Details

Found these pictures of #42-39950 / Wampus Cat in the German KU-Report (belongs to B-17 #42-3506 / Sir Baboon McGoon) at the crash site. Photographer is unknown.

B-17 #42-39950 / Wampus Cat at crash site

B-17 #42-39950 / Wampus Cat – left waist gun position.

B-17 #42-39950 / Wampus Cat – waist gun position.

B-17 #42-39950 / Wampus Cat – Seems to be radio compartment

B-17 #42-39950 / Wampus Cat – Radio compartment. The machine gun and its shadow is visible.

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B-17 42-39950 / Wampus Cat Crew

Position	Rank	Name	Status	Note
P	1LT	Nelson W. Hardin	POW	-
CP	2LT	Richard T. Knowles	POW	-
NAV	1LT	John F. Huistra	POW	-
BOMB	1LT	Lee F. Barrows Jr.	POW	-
ENG/TT	T/SGT	Ernest B. Jackson	POW	-
RO	T/SGT	Wendell W. May	POW	-
BT	S/SGT	Ralph E. Moulis	POW	-
WG	S/SGT	Joseph E. Dilley	POW	-
WG	S/SGT	Lee T. Jenks	POW	-
TG	SGT	Robert M. Richardson	KIA	-