B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-39965

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-39965

Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega

  • RCL: WW-W

MACR: 3482

Werbung/Advertisement

History of
B-17 42-39965

Delivered Long Beach 20/10/43; Gr Island 31/11/43; Assigned 369BS/306BG [WW-W] Thurleigh 19/12/43; Missing in Action Brunswick 29/3/44 with Gerald Haywood, Co-pilot: Rubin Robertson, Navigator: Jack Bailiff, Bombardier: Bill Daniels, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Oldfield, Ball turret gunner: Melvin Ross (6 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Jerome Evenson, Waist gunner: Edgar Johnson, Waist gunner: Harry Maron,Tail gunner: Ralph Butler (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d #3 & set nose afire, crashed Ahnebeck, near Parsau, NE of Woolfsburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3482.

Last updated: 28. February 2019

Werbung/Advertisement

Write comment