B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-5806

History of
B-17 42-5806

Delivered Long Beach 15/2/43; Smoky Hill 23/3/43; with Rueben Neib, force landed Olmstead 6/4/43 after slight mid-air collision; Tinker 24/5/43; Dow Fd 19/6/43; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-Y] Grafton Underwood 3/7/43; Missing in Action Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 with Bob Swank, Ball turret gunner: Carl Johnson, Waist gunner: Pete Sorbo, Waist gunner: Chas Richey (4 Killed in Action), Co-pilot: Bill Hoffmeyer, Navigator: Harry Bolin, Bombardier: Newell Perkins, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Russell Kosse, Radio Operator: Bill Mattoon,Tail gunner: J.D. Martin (6 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Vollmershofen-Heidgen, six miles SW of Bonn, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 288.

Last updated: 13. April 2018