Production-block:
B-17F-30-VE: 42-5855 to 42-5904
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomb Group:
- 388th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 560th Bomb Squadron
History of
B-17 42-5904 / Gremlin Gus
Delivered Long Beach 29/4/43; Sioux City 4/5/43; Roswell 26/5/43; Smoky Hill 12/6/43; Dow Fd 19/6/43; Assigned 560BS/388BG [–K] Knettishall 18/6/43; t/o La Pallice 16/9/43 due to poor weather, with Jarrent, Co-pilot: ?, Navigator: Staples{Wounded in Action}, Bombardier: Dick{lost leg in crash}, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Forsta, Radio Operator: ? , Ball turret gunner: Hovatter{inj}, Waist gunner: Cunningham{inj}, Waist gunner: ?,Tail gunner: Jim Jones{inj} (10 Returned to Duty); foto-Ed Balliff (KIS-in crash); in poor visibility crashed Long Holcombe Hill, Simonsbath, near Nth Moulton, Devon, UK. Salvaged 19/9/43. GREMLIN GUS.
Last updated: 19. July 2017
19. November 2021 access_time 18:16
T/Sgt James F. Jones, 20343323, Baltimore, MD, the tail gunner, was completely ejected from his station when the plane scraped a hilltop approaching South Molton. He landed in soft soil and was only slightly injured. The plane continued for three miles before crashing. Weather was a factor and it had suffered battle damage on a raid to La Palice, France. He also survived a mid-air collision in 41-2603 with another B-17E near Gowen Field, Idaho, on January 15, 1943. Sources: AAMIB and AAIR