Production-block:
B-17F-50-BO: 42-5350 to 42-5484
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 97th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 341st Bomb Squadron
Fate:
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History of
B-17 42-5377 / Axis Axes
Delivered Tulsa 26/11/42; West Palmm Beach 9/1/43; Assigned 341BS/97BG Biskra 21/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Missing in Action Grossetto A/fd 26/4/43, with Dick Charlton, Calkins, Locke, Buskin, Lent, Meares, Vince, Leffler, Walters, Thoreson. AXIS AXES.
Last updated: 2. May 2020
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B-17 42-5377 / Axis Axes Crew
| Position | Rank | Name | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | 2LT | Richard Charlton | UNK | - |
| CP | 2LT | Robert H. Calkins | UNK | - |
| NAV | 1LT | Sumner E. Locke | UNK | - |
| BOMB | 2LT | Richard G. Buskin | UNK | - |
| ENG/TT | T/SGT | William G. Meares | KIA | - |
| RO | T/SGT | Merrill G. Lent | UNK | - |
| BT | S/SGT | Michael R. Vince | UNK | - |
| WG | SGT | William Leffler | UNK | - |
| WG | S/SGT | Robert E. Walters | UNK | - |
| TG | S/SGT | Robert H. Thoreson | UNK | - |
01. May 2020 access_time 18:16
I am looking for the military marks of this b-17, “Axis Axes”, including “nose art”, do you have news? photos, drawings, whatever. I live in Grosseto and that plane was shot down here.