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Source:
www.306bg.us
Production-block:
B-17G-10-VE: 42-39958 to 42-40057
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomb Group:
- 306th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 423rd Bomb Squadron
MACR: 11038
Missions: 60+
History of
B-17 42-39963 / Little Lulu
Delivered Long Beach 21/10/43; Assigned 423BS/306BG Thurleigh 30/12/43; Missing in Action Berlin 5/12/44 with Wayne Stetler, Co-pilot: Andy Paulko, Radio Operator: Don Frantz, Ball turret gunner: Dan Tachan, Waist gunner: Chas Laubach,Tail gunner: Bill Eschenbach (6 Killed in Action); Navigator: Sam Culbert, Bombardier: Art Dealy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Jarvis (3 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Schoenflieses, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 11038. LITTLE LULU.
Last updated: 4. February 2019
B-17 42-39963 / Little Lulu Crew
| Position | Rank | Name | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | 2LT | Wayne M. Stetler | KIA | - |
| CP | 2LT | Andrew Pauko | KIA | - |
| NAV | F/O | Samuel J. Culbert Jr. | POW | - |
| BOMB | 2LT | Athur G. Dealy | POW | - |
| ENG/TT | S/SGT | Robert D. Jarvis | KIA | - |
| RO | S/SGT | Donald R. Frantz | KIA | - |
| BT | SGT | Daniel R. Tachan | KIA | - |
| WG | SGT | Charles C. Laubach | KIA | - |
| TG | SGT | William C Eschenbach | KIA | - |
06. November 2021 access_time 12:19
Der Bomber ist ca 500m Luftlinie hinter meinem Haus im Wald abgestürzt.Ein alter Nachbar zeigte mir die Stelle….man erkennt sie an den Bewuchs mit Birken inmitten des Kiefernwaldes.Ich hatte Mal mit einen Metalldetektor gesucht und neben Munition und verschmolzen Aluminium auch Instrumente Gurtfragmente und einen Zylinderkopf gefunden…
Die Teile sind durch den Einschlag relativ weit unter der Erde
07. November 2021 access_time 8:59
Hallo Norman,
vielen Dank für für Information.
Im Boden liegen bestimmt noch diverse Teile. Wichtig ist dennoch, dass alle Besatzungsmitglieder geborgen werden konnten.
Grüße aus Dessau
Jing
15. October 2022 access_time 1:22
My uncle Daniel Tachan was the ball turret gunner killed in this aircraft.
29. May 2023 access_time 4:11
My third cousin, Charles C Laubach was the waist gunner. Growing up we visited his parents regularly and I was young. I keep seeing his military picture and one day I asked his aunt who is this. She told me his name, that he was the son and nothing was said about being buried with 4 other fliers due to the remains being placed in one coffin, all unidentifiable. They were burried overseas then repatriated on May 5, 1950 . They now reside at Dorchester Memorial Park in Cambridge, MD.