B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-5882 / Spook III

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-5882 / Spook III
General
Manufacturer: Lockheed/Vega
Production-Block: , B-17F-30-VE: 42-5855 to 42-5904
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 95th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 336th Bomb Squadron
RCL ET-D
MACR 216
Fate: , Lost by enemy aircraft
(28 July 1943)
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History of
B-17 42-5882 / Spook III

Delivered Long Beach 20/4/43; Smoky Hill 27/4/43; Presque Is 27/5/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-D] Framlingham 4/6/43; Horham 15/6/43; with H. O’Neal force landed RAF St Eval, Cornwall 28/6/43; 6m Missing in Action 28/7/43 with Francis Regan, Co-pilot: Bill Parker, Navigator: Tom Nix{body washed up on Danish beach}, Bombardier: Warren Guenther, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Starkebaum, Radio Operator: Alonzo Paul, Ball turret gunner: Bill Brunson, Waist gunner: Harry Lofton, Waist gunner: Sam Wilderson,Tail gunner: Merle Fear (10 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed North Sea, Missing Air Crew Report 216. SPOOK III.

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