B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-97484

History of
B-17 42-97484

Delivered Denver 29/11/43; Kearney 15/12/43; Presque Is 23/12/43; Assigned: 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 4/1/44; MIA Munster 11/3/44 Pilot: Herb Overdorf, Co-Pilot: Leo Teplitz, Navigator: Chester Adams, Bombardier: Nick Pantages, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Woodrow Harper, Radio Operator: Dan Fasanello, Ball Turret Gunner: Ed Johnson, Waist Gunner: Chas Gessert, Waist Gunner: Darrell Lincks (9KIA-most landed on sandbank at low tide, but pleas for help to Germany. an workers and soldiers as tide came in were ignored and they all drowned. After war searches for those responsible failed); Tail Gunner: Julius Schultz (POW); flak, crashed North Sea, off Haamstede, Isle of Schouwen, Hol. MACR 3188.

Last updated: 11. June 2018