B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-97601 / Gypsy Gal

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-97601 / Gypsy Gal
General
Manufacturer: Lockheed/Vega
Production-Block: , B-17G-20-VE: 42-97536 to 42-97635
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 351st Bomb Group, 457th Bomb Group, 91st Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 751st Bomb Squadron
RCL Z
MACR 7548
Fate: , Lost by enemy aircraft
(19 July 1944)
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History of
B-17 42-97601 / Gypsy Gal

Delivered Denver 3/1/44; 1SAG Langley 4/2/44; 13/3/44; Assigned 91BG Bassingbourn 27/4/44; transferred 351BG [Z] Polebrook 14/6/44; 751BS/457BG [Z] Glatton 15/6/44; Missing in Action Augsburg 19/7/44 with Noel Cunefare, Co-pilot: Capt Jerome Godfrey, Radio Operator: Frank Nunn,Tail gunner: Lt John Sampson (4 Killed in Action); Navigator: Wesley Atkins, Bombardier: Don Barton, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Howard Drake, Waist gunner: Ralph Hodson, Joe Duvall (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Roppen, near Innsbruck, Austria; Missing Air Crew Report 7548. GYPSY GAL.

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This page was last updated on 27 July 2017

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