B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-97511 / Egg Haid

History of
B-17 42-97511 / Egg Haid

Delivered Cheyenne 7/12/43; Albuquerque 15/12/43; Kearney 4/1/44; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-K] Ridgewell 22/2/44; mid air coll with 42-40011 returning from Aschaffenburg 21/1/45 with Val Crofts, Co-pilot: Nicholas Tauro, Navigator: Seymour Sobole, tog-Ed Jones, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gildo Pannacione, Radio Operator: Morris Shapiro, Ball turret gunner: Allen Taylor, Waist gunner: John York,Tail gunner: Milton Swarts (9 Killed in Action); crashed near base; Salvaged 2 SAD Watton, Nfk. EGG HAID.

Last updated: 25. September 2017

B-17 42-97511 / Egg Haid Details

Mid-air-collision with B-17 #42-40011 ‘Schnozzle’ on returning vom mission on 21st January 1945.