![B-17 #42-6042 B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-6042](https://b17flyingfortress.de/cms/wp-content/themes/b17-blue-dreams/images/b17-no-photo.jpg)
Production-block:
B-17F-45-VE: 42-6030 to 42-6104
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
History of
B-17 42-6042
Delivered Burbank 2/7/43; Dallas 8/8/43; crashed 18/10/43 with Dick Creamer, on Stormy Peak, Pinetree Park, Col.; Written off 21/10/43.
Last updated: 2. December 2022
B-17 42-6042 Crew
Position | Rank | Name | Status | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
P | 2LT | Richard Muhleman Creamer | KIC | - |
CP | 2LT | Joseph Rex Arnold | KIC | - |
NAV | 2LT | Warren Mead Dean | KIC | - |
BOMB | 2LT | Andrew Harlan Christensen | KIC | - |
RO | SGT | Robert J. Hopkins | KIC | - |
WG | S/SGT | William Noel Cook | KIC | - |
WG | SGT | Philip Madsen Doddridge | KIC | - |
TG | SGT | Carl Everett Hamre | KIC | - |
08. July 2022 access_time 0:15
Thanks once again, Jing, for sending me the identifying information pertaining to the B-17 co-piloted by Lt. Joseph Arnold. Feel free to post any of the article files onto your site. Will send along any additional information if I locate any.
James
30. November 2022 access_time 16:34
Greetings. 2 Corrections. Pilot was not known as Dick Creamer. He is Richard or Rich. Also middle name is Muhleman.
He was my uncle. I never met him as he died 2 weeks before my parents were married.
02. December 2022 access_time 10:01
Thank you! I have corrected his name.
Cheers
Jing