Production-block:
B-17G-45-BO: 42-97173 to 42-97435
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 305th Bomb Group
- 398th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 365th Bomb Squadron
- 601st Bomb Squadron
Fate:
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History of
B-17 42-97350 / Strictly From Hunger
Delivered Cheyenne 20/2/44; Rapid City 8/3/44; Grenier 30/4/44; Assigned: 601BS/398BG Nuthampstead 6/5/44 STRICTLY FROM HUNGER; no ops, Transferred: 365BS/305BG Chelveston 7/5/44; MIA Mannheim 21/7/44 Pilot: Leon Kornblau, Bernie Radomski, Chas Woolf, Meredith Mills, Frank Misiak (5KIA); Bill Boyd, Ed Theed, Roger Gagnon, Irvin Hughes (4POW); flak, crashed Epfenhofen, Germany. MACR 7276.
Last updated: 16. March 2018
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07. July 2023 access_time 8:49
Regarding this aircraft,
B-17 42-97350 / Strictly From Hunger
additional information from the book “TERROR FLYERS,
The Lynching of American Airmen in Nazi Germany “
Kévin T Hall P. 272
It appears that five members of this crew were killed.
It is :
” 12-779 Dachau
2nd Lt Charles E. WOOLF Navigator
S/Sgt Frank L MISIACK Tail gunner
S/Sgt Meredith M. MILLS Jr. Ball Turret
1st Lt Leonard A. KONNBLAU Pilot
2nd Lt Bernard E. RADOMSKI Co-pilot
1944, July 21st
SCHOLLACH AND URACH
KILLED… /…”
Regards.
Nico