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Source:
www.fold3.com
Production-block:
B-17F-50-BO: 42-5350 to 42-5484
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 303rd Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 359th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: BN-W
History of
B-17 42-5482 / Cat-O-Nine Tails
Delivered Cheyenne 15/12/42; Salina 10/1/43; Brookley 1/2/43; Homestead 14/2/43; Assigned 359BS/303BG [BN-W] Molesworth 6/3/43; sustained flak damage over Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Ambrose Grant, Co-pilot: Franklin Ball, Navigator: Jim Berger, Bombardier: Marion Blackburn, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tony Kujawa, Radio Operator: Ed Sexton, Ball turret gunner: Chester Petrosky{wia), Waist gunner: Bob Jaouen{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Woodrow Greenlee{Wounded in Action},Tail gunner: Francis Anderson (10 Returned to Duty); crew bailed near coast and aircraft crash landed Riseley, Beds., near Molesworth, UK, 20 miles away, broke in half after hitting tree, and sal. CAT O’NINE TAILS.
Last updated: 16. March 2018
16. March 2018 access_time 2:01
This is the plane that crashed in my dad’s garden.. He traced the crew and we lay a wreath yearly at Cambridge American cemetery UK on behalf of the SSMA USA
24. December 2023 access_time 13:18
This is my uncle’s plane (Tony Kujawa). However the crew on the picture above is is not A. Grant’s crew.